US Popularity Rank: 25804

Origin: British

Meaning: High gate; From Ayot

Hailing from great heights, Hiatt is a name for explorers, mountain climbers, astronauts, and the ambitious artists of the world. Humble and Medieval, Hiatt was a family surname from Ayot St. Lawrence and Ayot St. Peter, two villages in Hertfordshire in England. Both were recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 and inspired Hiatt and its counterparts Hyatt and Hoyt. Hiatt comes from an Anglo-Saxon term for a dweller by the "high gate" and denotes from the Old English hēah and geat. Just like Walter Hoyt, who became a founding settler of Norwalk, Connecticut, your little Hiatt could go on to achieve great things as they grow into their shoes.