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.