English and Scottish: metonymic occupational name for a hatter
or nickname for someone noted for the hat or hats that he wore. Some
early forms such as Thomas del Hat (Oxfordshire 1279) and Richard atte
Hatte (Worcestershire 1327) indicate that the word was also used of a
hill or clump of trees; so in these cases the surname must have been
topographic in origin.South German: from a short Germanic
personal name, Hatto (derived from compound names with the
first element hadu ‘battle’, ‘strife’).Frisian:
from a personal name, a short form of any of the various compound
names formed with Hade- as the first element, for example
Hadebert.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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