Båth

surname · Latin script

Båth is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 113K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 161K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 600K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Båth itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,945 people, 2010

Sources
23 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 113K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BååthLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bååth in SE Sweden, NO Norway and Baath in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Båth: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Båth
  1. Middle Englishbath(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishbæþ“bath”(measured from records)
  3. Proto-West Germanic*baþ(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Germanic*baþą“bath”(measured from records)
  5. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₁-“to warm”(measured from records)

From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Corresponding inherited verbs are beath and bathe.

Sources 4

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames
  • A dictionary of surnames
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Båth counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Båth is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,9451 in 113K2.9KBaath9
SE Sweden600as Bååth1 in 17K600Bååth23
IN India2441 in 5.4M244—1
BR Brazil1171 in 1.8M117——
NO Norway341 in 161K34Bååth2
BE Belgium191 in 617K19——
CH Switzerland141 in 600K14——

2,945 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling bath. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Båth is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden

    Also written Bath

  • English surname55 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, United States, South Africa, Australia

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Bath, Botha, Baeth, Bäth, Ba'Th

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Guyana

    Also written Bath

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bath

  • Spanish name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Panama, United Kingdom, Mexico, Portugal

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bath, Bäth

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bath

  • Italian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bath

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Anna Båth, b. 1879Markus Båth, b. 1916Torbjörn Båth, b. 1945Malin Jacobson Båth, b. 1966

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Båth mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and A dictionary of surnames and 2 other sources.
In which country does Båth have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Båth, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baath.
Where is Båth most common?
Båth is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 113 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Båth?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,945 people named Båth in 2010, about 1 in 113 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Båth”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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