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’.