Family name origins & meanings
- North German and Frisian : from the Old Frisian personal name Beyo or Boy(e) (see Boye).
- French : habitational name from any of the places so named, in Ain, Meurthe-et-Moselle, or Saône-et-Loire.
- French (Burgundy) : topographic name for someone who lived by a mill stream.
- Muslim : from beg ‘bey’, a Turkish title of respect. Compare Baig.