# Bateman (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/bateman/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 19,001 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,893 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 16,249 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.8% (18,313 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Bate + man, with the meaning "servant of Bate".

## Who carries it

Share of people named Bateman in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 87% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 7.7% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 1.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Bateman in the United States, the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named Bateman

- Jason Bateman, American actor (born 1969)
- Justine Bateman, American actress, writer, and producer
- Talitha Bateman, American actress
- Tom Bateman, British actor
- Gabriel Bateman, American child film actor
- Harry Bateman, Anglo-American mathematician
- Ephraim Bateman, American politician (1780-1829)
- Victory Bateman, American stage and film actress (1865-1926)
- H. M. Bateman, British artist and cartoonist (1887–1970)
- Richard Bateman, British botanist
- Victoria Bateman, British economist

## Similar surnames

Boatman, Badman, Bodman.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.