Bey Family History
Bey Name Meaning
North German and Dutch: from the personal name Beye or Baye vowel variants of Boye . Germanized form of Sorbian Baj: nickname or occupational name from Upper Sorbian baj ‘storyteller’. Compare Bay . French: habitational name from (Le) Bey the name of several places in eastern France in Ain Meurthe-et-Moselle or Saône-et-Loire. French (Burgundy): topographic name for someone who lived by a mill stream from a regional variant of bief ‘mill-race’. Muslim (mainly Algeria also common among African Americans): from the Turkish title bey a younger form of beg (see Beg ) denoting a nobleman serving as a local administrator in the Ottoman Empire. It was also a high military rank in the Ottoman army and also widely used as a title of respect for a man (after a man's name). See also 6 below Agha and Pasha . Turkish: ornamental name or nickname from bey a Turkish title (see 5 above).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022