Given name & surname · also Old French

Beavis

“an archer”

Beavis is a variant of Bevis. One interpretation is “an archer.”

Meaning & origin

What it means

Beavis is a variant of Bevis. One interpretation is “an archer.”

Explained through its name family

Where it comes from

Beavis comes from Old French.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

As a given name, Beavis was taken from the surname.

Beavis’s family of names

Beavis has a related form in Bevis.

Walk Beavis’s family in the name graph

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The ring: nicknames and forms.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Appears in

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Old French

Balvís

“beauty”

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Old French

Beacham

Beacham is a surname from Middle English, ultimately from Old French.

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Old French

Bearpark

Bearpark is a surname from Old French.

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Old French

Beauvilain

“good” · “peasant”

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Old French

Boteler

Boteler is a surname from Middle English, ultimately from Old French.

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Old French

Bailes

“bailiff, officer in a court of law”

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Old French

Bullinger

“baker”

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Old English

Barrell

“barrel”

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92% boys · 8% girls

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