First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Finnish: possibly from the dialect word haataa ‘to toil’. This is an old Finnish family name, which occurs throughout the northern part of the country and in the Savo region in central eastern Finland.