HighT
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill or on a piece of raised ground, from Middle English heyt ‘summit’, ‘height’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/haɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
HighT is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 59K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.3M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
5,629 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill or on a piece of raised ground, from Middle English heyt ‘summit’, ‘height’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
HighT counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 5,629 | 1 in 59K | 5.6K | HighT | 44 |
| NL Netherlands | 13 | 1 in 1.3M | 13 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 6 | 1 in 6.4M | 4 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | — | — | HighT | 4 |
| GT Guatemala | — | — | — | HighT | 2 |
5,629 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling hight. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
HighT is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, To call, name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, adj., wayakpa, woyakpa
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In enm, hopefulness, expectedness
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- James Hightb. 1870NZNew Zealand educational administrator and historian (1870-1958)
- Cecil Hightb. 1917NZNew Zealand RAF officer (1917-1940)
- Ahmo Hightb. 1973USAmerican model (1973- 2023)
- Ellen Lendra Hightb. 1981ZMZambian swimmer
- Casper Hightb. 1986DEGerman record producer
- Thomas HightUSHight, Thomas; class of 1853
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.6K | #6,094 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.5K | #5,732 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.3K | #6,222 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 13 | #59,271 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #224,623 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #337,651 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name HighT mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived at the top of a hill or on a piece of raised ground, from Middle English heyt ‘summit’, ‘height’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce HighT?
- A machine transcription gives /haɪt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does HighT have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named HighT, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled HighT.
- Where is HighT most common?
- HighT is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 59 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name HighT?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,629 people named HighT in 2010, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hightThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “HighT”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.