Given name & surname · also German
Debes
“gift of Yahweh”
Debes is a surname from German, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in French, German, Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, and 2 other languages.
Original GermanMatthäus
Meaning & origin
What it means
Debes goes back to Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū), meaning “gift of Yahweh.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Debes comes from German, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Debes as a surname developed from DEBUS. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Debes as a surname developed from Matthäus.
Debes’s family of names
In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Debes as a surname developed from the German form DEBUS. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Debes as a surname has a related form in DEBUS. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Debes as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Matteus.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
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>99% boys