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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BATH

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(origin: Sax. Local) A town in the county of Somerset, Eng., famous for its hot baths; so named from the Saxon, bad, Teutonic, bad, a place to bathe or wash in. It was called by the Saxons Acmanceaster, or the "sick folks' town;" and by the Britons, Caerbaddon, from Caer, a fortified place or city, and baddon, a bathing-place, from badd, a bath.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

1. 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.
2. Scottish: reduced and altered form of McBeth.
3. German: variant of Bathe.
4. Indian (Panjab): Sikh name based on the name of a Jat clan.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)