Meaning & Origin
An English topographic surname from Middle English for someone living on a hide of land.
Hyde is a boy's baby name of Middle English origin, from the Middle English hyde, a unit of land (enough to support one family) derived from Old English. As a surname-name, Hyde carries the literary weight of Dr. Jekyll's dark alter ego in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde — and yet, as a given name, it feels cool and decidedly modern.
Hyde has the edgy, literary confidence of a name that has been claimed back from its villainous shadow — brief, memorable, and impossible to forget.