Names

From a nickname for a combative person. In some cases it may come from the name of English places called Battle, so named because they were sites of battles.

From a nickname meaning “battle” in Italian.

Variant of Báthory.

Means “son of Bate”.

Originally indicated a person from Bátor, a village in Hungary, which might be of Turkic origin meaning “hero”. This was the surname of a Hungarian noble family who historically controlled the town. One of the family members, Stephen Báthory, became the king of Poland in the 16th century.

Means “son of Bate”.

From the Basque place name Basurtu, a village (now part of Bilbao) in Biscay. It means “middle of the forest”.

Originally a nickname for a short person, from Latin bassus “thick, low”.

Variant of Basso, common in northern Italy.

Derived from the place name Bassano, belonging multiple villages in Italy.