Bath Family History
Bath Name Meaning
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.Scottish: reduced and altered form of
McBeth.German: variant of Bathe.Indian
(Panjab): Sikh name based on the name of a Jat clan.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Bath
Name Distribution of Bath Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bath families
 40 - 78  14 - 39 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bath families
|
152 - 301 51 - 151 |
1 - 50 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bath families
|
10 - 18 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bath census records
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Bath Family Origin
Bath Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Bath
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Bath Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bath census records
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Bath Civil War Service Records
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