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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian (northern Croatia; also from the Dalmatian island of Korčula) : topographic name from Czech bez Slovak baza ‘elder’ or ‘lilac’, Slovenian and northern Croatian dialect beza, dialect form of bazga ‘elder’.
  • Slovenian (Bežek) : perhaps a medieval nickname for a refugee, from an agent noun based on bežati ‘to flee’.

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