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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for a collector of fines, from Middle High German bezzerære, an agent derivative of bezzern ‘to collect fines’.
  • German : habitational name from any of various places in Germany named Besser, Bessing, or Bessingen.

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