Hiatt

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Hiatt has been given to 34 babies in the U.S. since 2001. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2008, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Hiatt, 2020

1 in 668,000

Hiatt over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hiatt: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hiatt means

Hiatt is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Hiatt is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 34 boys were recorded with the name Hiatt between 2001 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2008; its best national rank was #10,270 in 2008.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Hiatt?

Hiatt had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020: 1 in 668,000; 5 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only: 1 in 345,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 463,344 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Hiatt sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hiatt. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hiatts were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hiatt was born before 2011 — so the typical Hiatt is around 14 today.

Median birth year: 2011; About 14 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 34; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (17).

Is Hiatt rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2008 (7)
Years since peak: 17; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #10,270; 2008

Spellings of Hiatt

Hiatt is not the most common spelling — Wyatt is, with 78.5% against Hiatt's 0.01%.

Wyatt78.5%208,452
Heath11.1%29,523
Matt9.0%23,887
Ryatt0.94%2,502
Hart0.46%1,211
Hiatt0.01%34

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Hiatt by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #10,270; 2008
Peak year: 2008; 7 that year
First recorded: 2001
Last recorded: 2020
All-time count: 34
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Hiatt

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Hian Pratt Wiatt Hyatt Hiam Rhiatt Jarratt Whyatt Platt Patt Rhyatt Wyhatt Ryatt Watt Garratt Hiawatha Matt Wyatt

Sibling names for Hiatt

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Jaylen Yamilet Dalilah Desire Jaidyn Kalia Abagail Rihanna

For a brother

Kaeden Gavyn Tyshawn Marley Aditya Aydan Aydin Javion

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