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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Debès) : topographic name from Church Latin bettiu ‘birch tree’, ‘birch wood’ (from Gaulish betu), or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, of which there are examples in Dordogne, Isère, and Puy-de-Dôme.
  • German : variant of Debus.
  • Hungarian : from the old secular personal name Debes.

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