Given name & surname

Buys

Buys is a surname from Dutch.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Buys comes from Dutch.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Dutch Buijs.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Buys’s family of names

In English usage, Buys as a surname was borrowed from the Dutch form Buijs.

Walk Buys’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Similar names

If you love Buys, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Dutch

Beets

Beets is a surname from Dutch. It is used in English and Dutch.

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Polish

Bies

“rush; sedge”

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German

Booms

Booms is a surname from Dutch, ultimately from German.

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German

Beus

Beus is a surname from Dutch, ultimately from German.

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Dutch

Beekes

“brook, stream”

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Dutch

Bult

“bump, hump”

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Dutch

Boye

Boye is a masculine given name. It is used in Danish.

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88% boys · 12% girls

Dutch

Bouwens

Bouwens is a surname from Dutch.

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Sibling ideas

Names that share Buys’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

A brother for Buys