Wiatt Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

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Family name meaning

Written in a baptism entry or a ship's list, Wiatt usually leads back to Wyatt. In origin, the name means “Little Guy”.

Spelled with “i” instead of “y”, Wiatt shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Wyat and Wyott. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Wiatt with 252 bearers, at rank 76,275. Wiatt sounds close to Watt, Witt and Witte, so it can help to search both.

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