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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BATHGATE

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Scottish: habitational name from a place in West Lothian, recorded c.1160 as Batchet, and probably derived from Brittonic baeddgoed ‘boar wood’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)