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bath Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from the city of Bath in western England, which is the site of sumptuous, but in the Middle Ages ruined, Roman baths. The place is named with the dative plural of Old English bæð ‘bath’. In some cases the surname may have originated as a metonymic occupational name for an attendant at a public bath house.
  2. Scottish: reduced and altered form of McBeth.
  3. German: variant of Bathe.
  4. Indian (Panjab): Sikh name based on the name of a Jat clan.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bath Families in the US in 1920
Number of bath families
 40-78
 14-39		 1-13
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John Bath MavisKemsley77 0
Charles H. Bath Pat9705 4
Baths of Christian Malford Wiltshire.To Walcha NSW Australia spiritseeker123 2
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Emma Bath mckymjn 0
Bath family - decendents of Theodore Bath, son of Charles Sheldon August Bath jhbath 0
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George Bath b. 1840 NY>FL>GA juliewc 1
BATH / Ancestors, Great Western Railway. julia giblin 2
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