Beatty
English
editEtymology
editTwo main origins:
- From a pet form of the personal name Bartholomew.
- Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac an Bhiadhtaigh (“son of the victualer”), from biadhtach (“victualer, hospitaller”).
Pronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbi.ɾi/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbi.ti/
Proper noun
editBeatty (countable and uncountable, plural Beattys)
- A surname.
- David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, British admiral in the First World War
- A census-designated place in Nye County, Nevada, United States.
- A census-designated place in Klamath County, Oregon, United States.
Derived terms
editStatistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, Beatty is the 1389th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 25510 individuals. Beatty is most common among White (80.19%) and Black/African American (14.26%) individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Beatty”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 120.
Anagrams
editCategories:
- English terms derived from Irish
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English surnames
- en:Census-designated places in Nevada, USA
- en:Census-designated places in the United States
- en:Places in Nevada, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Census-designated places in Oregon, USA
- en:Places in Oregon, USA
- English surnames from Irish
- English surnames from given names
- en:Individuals
- en:World War I