Hatch

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Hatch is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Turks & Caicos Islands it is the 4th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: 'person who lives by a gate' or 'person from Hatch', from Middle English hacche 'gate'.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 12K◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 13K
  • CACanada1 in 13K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈27K ●

across 7 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
399 ●

260K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 12K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

HatchLatin · English●267K records
แฮท์ชThai · Thai●4 records
해치Hangul · Korean●2 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

'person who lives by a gate' or 'person from Hatch', from Middle English hacche 'gate'

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Hatch is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—26,903217K rec.1 in 12K27KHatch399
GB United Kingdom—15,33514K rec.—listedHatch137
AU Australia—6,6796.4K rec.——Hatch123
CA Canada—5,8735.8K rec.——Hatch105
IT Italy—1,5231.5K rec.——Hatch11
DE Germany—816812 rec.——Hatch39
NZ New Zealand#729790771 rec.——Hatch36
RU Russia—616632 rec.——Hatch12
IL Israel—552567 rec.——Hatch8
TC Turks & Caicos Islands#45061.7K rec.——Hatch1
PH Philippines—396418 rec.——Hatch10
EG Egypt—315318 rec.——Hatch3

Roughly 27K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 12K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English267K85%
  • 10K3%
  • Spanish8.7K3%
  • Welsh3.4K1%
  • German2.4K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English266,85685%
10,4323%
Spanish8,6873%
Welsh3,4281%
German2,3981%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Hatch is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish surname1.4K records spelled Hatch12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Гатч, Хэтч, Gatch

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Hatch is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, from Hatch (Beds, Hants, Som, Wilts) or residence by a hatch/gate; first attested Gilbert ad Hacce 1185 Templars (Ess)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • topographic name from Middle English hacche ‘gate’, Old English hcecc (see Hatcher). In some cases the surname is habitational, from one of the many places named with this word. This name has been in Ireland since the 17th century, associated with County Meath and the nearby part of Louth.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, by a gate, OE hcecce (normally a gate marking the entrance to a forest or other enclosed piece of land, sometimes a floodgate or sluice-gate), or habitation name from one of the many places named with this word. Var.; Hatcher. Haskew see Askew Hatchard see Achard

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  • In English, A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, v., tete = dete. Ndaméi ngalu foldi a ti gbandi ke a pé ti dete

    as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Riley Hatch, b. 1862Eric Hatch, b. 1901Nancy Dupree, b. 1927Marshall Hatch, b. 1932Orrin Hatch, b. 1934Tony Hatch, b. 1939David Hatch, b. 1939Richard Hatch, b. 1945Liam Hatch, b. 1982Boosie Badazz, b. 1982
  • Riley Hatchb. 1862USsilent film actor (1862-1925)
  • Eric Hatchb. 1901USAmerican writer (1901-1973)
  • Nancy Dupreeb. 1927USnot in their usual nameAmerican archaeologist (1927–2017)
  • Marshall Hatchb. 1932AUAustralian plant biochemist
  • Orrin Hatchb. 1934USAmerican politician (1934–2022) – Former United States Senator and Former President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate (2015-2019)
  • Tony Hatchb. 1939GBEnglish composer for musical theatre and television; noted songwriter, pianist, arranger and producer
  • David Hatchb. 1939GBEnglish comic actor, BBC radio producer, radio executive, Chairman of National Consumer Council and the Parole Board (1939-2007)
  • Richard Hatchb. 1945USAmerican actor (1945–2017)
  • Liam Hatchb. 1982GBEnglish footballer (born 1982)
  • Boosie Badazzb. 1982USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper from Louisiana

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Hatch
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201027K#1,304
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202027K#1,294
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200026K#1,262
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—38#30,768
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—22#46,429
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—19#86,409
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20269—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—9#141,760
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—9#41,249
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20248#72,019
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20198—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20168—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 33 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Hatch?
We estimate roughly 27 thousand people bear Hatch (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Hatch have the most bearers?
We estimate about 27 thousand people bear Hatch in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled hatch.
How common is Hatch compared with other names?
In Turks & Caicos Islands, Hatch is the 4th most common surname of 2,587 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Hatch mean?
Recorded meaning: 'person who lives by a gate' or 'person from Hatch', from Middle English hacche 'gate'
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hatch” — the 4th most common surname in Turks & Caicos Islands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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