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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French and Swiss (French part) : metonymic occupational name for a baker, from Old French bise ‘large round loaf’.
  • English and Scottish : perhaps a variant of Biss. Compare Beese, Bice, Buys, Buys.

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