Phoenician heth — "fence", through Greek eta.
H
Greek used this letter for a long [e], Latin for a breath. English inherited the Latin job and then largely stopped pronouncing it: hour, honest, heir.
Archer · Bianchi · Chambers · Chandler · Chapman · Chavez · Cunningham · Fischer · Fisher · Fletcher · Gallagher · Graham · Griffiths · Hall
In the modern alphabet this letter is number 8 of 26. Before it comes G, after it I. The order itself is inherited: Latin took it from Greek, Greek from Phoenician, and the sequence has survived largely unchanged for about three thousand years. Every rearrangement since has been an insertion, not a reshuffle.
This is a consonant: it sets the hardness of a name and how it meets the next word. In a corpus of 315 surnames this letter opens 22 and closes 5. Among the 96 given names in the base it appears in 31. The surname carrying the most of it is Hughes, with 2.
John · Michael · Richard · Joseph · Thomas · Charles · Christopher · Matthew · Anthony · Timothy · Nicholas · Henry
These letters came from the Greek alphabet.