English: habitational name from any of a group of places in
Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire, named with Old English hætt
‘hat’, probably the name of a hill (see Hatt) + leah
‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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