Baby names info for BATES:

• Gender: boy
• Syllables: 1
• Characters: 5
• Pronunciation:

Origin and Meaning:

• English meaning of the name BATES for a boy:
  • variation of Bartholomew, a son that suspends the waters

Baby Names Popularity:

BATES does not currently rank in the top 1000 names in the United States.
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Surnames:

• BATES is a common last name.
  It's the 293^rd most common surname in the United States (according to the 2000 U.S. Census).

BATES appears in the following lists of names:

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