Besner Family History
Besner Name Meaning
Altered form of southern French Bézanère: habitational name from the name of a lost place in either Ariège or Haute-Garonne. The surname Bézanère is very rare in France. Jewish (from Austrian Galicia): from German Besen ‘broom’ + suffix -(n)er either a metonymic occupational name or one of the names assigned randomly by Austrian clerks.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022