Word.ws English Dictionary

Hackett

Hackett proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Hackett (countable and uncountable, plural Hacketts)

  1. A surname.
  2. A city in Sebastian County, Arkansas, United States.
  3. A town in Price County, Wisconsin, United States.

Forms of Hackett

pluralHacketts
alternative formHaggett

Origin of Hackett

Several etymologies: * A variant of the Scottish surname Halkett. * English surname, from a pet form of the medieval personal name Hack. * From Middle English haket (“kind of fish”), hence perhaps a nickname for someone supposed to resemble such a fish, or a metonymic occupational surname for a fisherman or fish seller. * It could also be a reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Eachaidh, from which also the surnames Caughey and McGaffey.

Questions about Hackett

What does Hackett mean?
Hackett means a surname.
What part of speech is Hackett?
Hackett is a proper noun.

Words near Hackett in the dictionary

  1. hackerproofs
  2. hackers
  3. hackerspace
  4. hackerspaces
  5. hackery
  6. Hackett
  7. hackette
  8. hackettes
  9. Hacketts
  10. Hackettstown
  11. hackeysack

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Hackett (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Hackett.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hackett. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.