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Hacket Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Ancestors listed as Hacket are often found as Hackett a generation earlier. Read literally, Hacket points to “little Hake, 'hook'”.

Heraldry and the Hacket name

Arms linked to Hackett and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

How the spelling arose

Hacket drops the “t” of Hackett, a shortening that clerks often made. The same family of names includes Hackitt.

Get the complete Hacket report, with a museum-style coat of arms.