Bies
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Two main origins:
- Borrowed from Dutch and North German Bies, a topographic surname from bies (“rush; sedge”).
- Borrowed from Polish Bies, an unflattering nickname from bies (“devil, demon”).
Proper noun
[edit]Bies (plural Bieses)
- A surname.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Bies is the 25332nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 977 individuals. Bies is most common among White (95.09%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bies”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 158.
Anagrams
[edit]Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From bies ("devil", "demon").
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Bies m pers
- a male surname
Declension
[edit]Declension of Bies
Proper noun
[edit]Bies f (indeclinable)
- a female surname
Further reading
[edit]- “Bies”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022
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- English uncountable nouns
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- Polish 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Polish/ɛs
- Rhymes:Polish/ɛs/1 syllable
- Polish lemmas
- Polish proper nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish personal nouns
- Polish surnames
- Polish male surnames
- Polish indeclinable nouns
- Polish feminine nouns
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