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battle Name Meaning and History

English and Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from a place named as having been the site of a battle, from Old French bataille ‘battle’. In some cases, this may be Battle in Sussex, site of the Battle of Hastings, but this name was taken to Scotland by a family from Umfreville, France, in the early 13th century.

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The battle name in History

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Distribution of battle Families in the US in 1920
Number of battle families
 262-522
 88-261		 1-87
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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