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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