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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Turkish and Arabic : perhaps from Arabic bạṭta ‘duck’.
  • Hungarian : from the old secular personal name Bata.
  • Czech and Slovak (Bat’a or Bát’a) : from bat’a ‘brother’, ‘mate’, also used as a colloquial nickname for a blockhead.

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