Meaning and Origin of: Beese

Family name origins & meanings

  • English or Welsh (Bristol and Gwent) : perhaps a variant of Biss.
  • German : from Middle Low German bēse ‘reed’, ‘bulrush’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who used reeds in his work, for example a brush maker.
  • Americanized spelling of Biese, a North German variant of 2.