Last name origins & meanings:
- Spanish (Bazán; of Basque origin): Castilianized form
of Basque Baztan, a habitational name from Baztan in Navarre
province, named from Basque aza, azta ‘bramble’ + the
locative suffix -an, with the addition of initial
B-.
- Polish and Ukrainian: from Polish bażant
‘pheasant’ (from Middle High German fasan(t)), hence a nickname
for someone thought to resemble the bird in some way.
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