
Bate Surname Meaning English:: from the Middle English personal name Bate. It could represent an unrecorded Old English name Bata or a form of Batte a short form of Anglo-Norman French names beginning with Bart- such as Bartelmeu (see Bartholomew ) or Bartram (see Bertram ). perhaps a topographic name from an unrecorded Middle English antecedent of the modern English dialect bate ‘river island ...