Bey Family History
Bey Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Bey Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bey families
 18 - 34  7 - 17 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bey families
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12 - 21 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bey families
|
5 - 8 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bey census records
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Bey Family Origin
Bey Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Bey
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Bey Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bey census records
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