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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