There's an updated version of the BEVIS surname at our new website, including better maps and updated information. Click/tap here to go to the new site at BritishSurnames.uk.

BEVIS

AbeBooks.com. Thousands of booksellers - millions of books.

There are approximately 2,207 people named Bevis in the UK. That makes it the 4,156th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 35 are named Bevis.

Region of origin

British Isles

Country of origin

England

Language of origin

English

Religion of origin

Christian

Classification

English


Related and similar surnames

Beavis
Beauvais
Bavis
Baves
Beavin
Beaves
Baevis
Beavies
Beavours
Beeves
Beavys
Beaveys
Beaviss
Beavise
Bavies
Beavs
Bafis
Beavie
Baevi
Beauavis
Baifis
Bavise
Baffis
Baviss
Bavi

The Bevis surname in historical dictionaries

BEVIS. Camden treats of this among Christian names, and thinks it may be corrupted from " the famous Celtique king, Bellovesus." The town of Beauvais, in France, is however a more likely source for the surname. The Sir Bevys of medieval romance seems to have no place in veritable history, though Heylin claims him as a real Earl of Southampton. The first instance of the surname that I can call to mind is in Sir John Bevis, or Befs, who took Richard, brother of King Henry III., prisoner in a winchnill at the battle of Lewes, in V2CA. See Beauvoir. A Goisbert de Belvaco occurs in Domesday.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Your comments on the Bevis surname