Family name origins & meanings
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name from any of the many places in eastern Europe whose name incorporates the Slavic element byel- ‘white’.
- German : occupational name for someone who used or made hatchets; a variant of Biehl, with the addition of the agent suffix -er.
- German : habitational name for someone from Bielen in Thuringia.
- Altered spelling of Biehler (a variant of Buehler), or a habitational name from any of places mentioned at Biehle 1.