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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : Scottish (of Norman origin) habitational name from Béthune in Pas-de-Calais, France (see Bethune).
  • Scottish : from the medieval personal name Be(a)ton, a pet name from a short form of Bartholomew or Beatrice.
  • Scottish : Anglicization of Gaelic Mac Beath (see McBeth).

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