Hyatt
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Either a different form of Highet, or ‘tailor’ from Yiddish khayet
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hajət/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hyatt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 17K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 438 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Either a different form of Highet, or ‘tailor’ from Yiddish khayet.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hyatt 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Hyatt | 7 |
| US United States | — | 19,280 | 1 in 17K | 19K | Hyatt | 438 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Hyatt | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Hyatt | 156 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1 | Hyatt | 135 |
| JM Jamaica | #293 | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Hyatt | 9 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Hyatt | 9 |
| AX Åland Islands | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Hyatt | 1 |
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; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
Hyatt is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
possibly a topographic name from Middle English hegh, hie ‘high’ -fyate ‘gate’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, US hotel chain
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Americanized spelling of Chait.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Gran pórtico
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Thaddeus Hyattb. 1816USabolitionist and inventor (1816–1901)
- John Wesley Hyattb. 1837USAmerican inventor of plastic (1837-1920)
- Alpheus Hyattb. 1838USAmerican zoologist, paleontologist (1838-1902)
- Christopher Hyattb. 1943USAmerican occultist (1943-2008)
- Pam Hyattb. 1947CACanadian actress
- Joel Hyattb. 1950USAmerican politician
- Missy Hyattb. 1963USAmerican professional wrestling valet
- Michael Hyattb. 1970USAmerican actress
- Dave Hyattb. 1972USAmerican computer programmer
- Dane Hyattb. 1984JMJamaican sprinter
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 19K | #1,863 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 18K | #1,791 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 18K | #1,927 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Hyatt mean, and where does it come from?
- Either a different form of Highet, or ‘tailor’ from Yiddish khayet. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Hyatt?
- A machine transcription gives /hajət/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Hyatt have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 111 thousand people named Hyatt in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hyatt.
- How common is the name Hyatt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 19,280 people named Hyatt in 2010, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Hyatt compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Hyatt is the 293rd most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hyattThe 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, “Hyatt” — the 293rd most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.