Last name: Bates. SDB Popularity ranking: 27. This interesting surname has three distinct possible origins, the first and most likely source being the medieval male given name "Bate", itself a petform of "Bartholomew", from the Aramaic patronymic "bar-Talmay" meaning "abounding in furrows" or "rich in lands".
Pasha Family History. Pasha Name Meaning. Muslim, Balkan, and eastern Mediterranean: status name or honorific title from Turkish basa 'pasha', a title of rank for a regional governor in the Ottoman Empire.
