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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch and North German : from bies ‘rush’, either a topographic name for some who lived where rushes grew, or metonymic occupational name for a weaver of rush matting.
  • Polish : unflattering nickname from bies ‘devil’, ‘Satan’.

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