English (Hampshire, Dorset, and Wiltshire): 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’ + the agent suffix
-er.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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