The bathgate Surname
bathgate Name Meaning and History
Scottish: habitational name from a place in West Lothian, recorded
c.1160 as Batchet, and probably derived from Brittonic
baeddgoed ‘boar wood’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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