Hiatt

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Hiatt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant spelling of Hyatt.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 12M(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 17Kas Hyatt
  • DKDenmark1 in 838Kas Hyatt

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hiatt itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

19,280 named Hyatt, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
16 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 12M (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HiattLatin(measured from records)
ХайаттCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hyatt in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

variant spelling of Hyatt.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hiatt 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.

Where Hiatt is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States19,280as Hyatt1 in 17K19KHyatt16
ES Spain14as Hyatt1 in 3.6M14——
PL Poland8as Hyatt1 in 4.8M5Hiatt3
DK Denmark7as Hyatt1 in 838K7——
SE Sweden3as Hyatt1 in 3.4M3——
BE Belgium11 in 12M1——

19,280 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hiatt is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Thailand, United Kingdom

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Hyatt, ไฮแอท

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Howard Hiatt, b. 1925Arnold Hiatt, b. 1928Lester Hiatt, b. 1931Jack Hiatt, b. 1942William R. Hiatt, b. 1950John Hiatt, b. 1952Fred Hiatt, b. 1955Phil Hiatt, b. 1969Lilly Hiatt, b. 1984Samantha Hiatt, b. 1998

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Hiatt
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201010K#3,486
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200010K#3,250
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202010K#3,474
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081#160,565
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1#82,418
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Hiatt mean, and where does it come from?
variant spelling of Hyatt. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Hiatt have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Hyatt, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Hiatt most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hiatt is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 12 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hiatt?
In Belgium, the national register counted 1 people named Hiatt in 2008, about 1 in 12 million residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hiatt

The same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.

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, “Hiatt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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