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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Most probably an Americanized form of French Bibeau, or an altered form of a Middle English and Old French nickname for a heavy drinker, beivrebout, from Old French beivre ‘to drink’ + bo(u)t ‘wine cask’. Compare Beavin.
  • This name is recorded in NY and NJ in the early 18th century, so it is probably of English, French Huguenot, or Dutch origin.

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