is beatty an irish name
Beattie. Beattie and Beatty are names of Scottish and Irish origin. In the Scottish case these names are diminutives or pet forms of the Bartholomew name that was popular since the time of the Crusades.Beattie became a well-known Border name, found on both the Scottish and English sides.he name today is found mainly in south Antrim and north Down. Betagh had become an Irish surname in county Meath by the 16th century and then spread to neighboring counties. The 19th century surgeon Thomas Edward Beatty, whose mother was a Betagh, came from a Cavan family.