Family name origins & meanings
- 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-.
- Polish and Ukrainian : from Polish bạzant ‘pheasant’ (from Middle High German fasan(t)), hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble the bird in some way.