Haight

English

Etymology

From Old English hēahþu (“height”), a topographic surname for someone who lived at the top of a hill. Compare Hight.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /heɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt
• Homophone: hate

Proper noun

Haight (countable and uncountable, plural Haights)

1. A surname from Old English.
2. A locality in Beaver County, Alberta, Canada.
3. A township in Ontonagon County, Michigan, United States.
4. A street in San Francisco named after California pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight; a 1960s rallying point for drug culture, especially LSD (hallucinogenic acid).
5. (with the) Ellipsis of Haight-Ashbury
   • 2026 September 12, Danielle Echeverria, “This neighborhood has San Francisco’s oldest housing”, in San Francisco Chronicle‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 September 2026:

     Nearly all of the iconic buildings in Haight-Ashbury were built years before 1940. […] Still, the Haight isn’t home to the oldest individual buildings in the city.

Related terms

• Haight-Ashbury

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Haight is the 5062^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6929 individuals. Haight is most common among White (92.64%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Haight”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 114.