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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. 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-.
  2. 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.