Bywater Family History
Bywater Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone living by a lake or river from Middle English by ‘by beside’ + water ‘water’. Irish: pseudo-translation (due to confusion with sruth ‘stream’) of Gaelic Ó Srutháin ‘descendant of Sruithán’ a personal name from a diminutive of sruith ‘sage elder’. Bywater is found as the English form of this Gaelic name in County Cork while in Mayo the usual Anglicization is Ryan .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022