Beatty

English

Etymology

Two 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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ɾi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ti/

Proper noun

Beatty (countable and uncountable, plural Beattys)

1. A surname.
2. David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, British admiral in the First World War
3. A census-designated place in Nye County, Nevada, United States.
4. A census-designated place in Klamath County, Oregon, United States.

Derived terms

• Beattyville

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Beatty is the 1389^th 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

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Beatty”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 120.

Anagrams

• Battey, Battye