Given name & surname · also German
Bey
“storyteller”
Bey is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a north German and Dutch surname, Bey goes back to Lower Sorbian baj, meaning “storyteller.”
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Where it comes from
Bey has more than one origin: as a north German and Dutch surname, it comes from Lower Sorbian baj; as a French surname, it goes back to a word meaning “mill-race”; as an Islamic surname (generally Algeria), it comes from Turkish bey.
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How it developed
From Lower Sorbian baj (“storyteller”), from Proto-Slavic *bajь.
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Bey’s family of names
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