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westgate Name Meaning and History

English: topographic name for someone who lived by the west gate of a city, from Middle English west ‘west’ + gate ‘gate’, or, in northern and eastern areas, ‘street’ (from Old Norse gata), or a habitational name from any of numerous places named Westgate, for example in County Durham, Kent, and Northumberland.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of westgate Families in the US in 1920
Number of westgate families
 70-138
 24-69		 1-23
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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