Dutch and North German: from bies ‘rush’, either a
topographic name for some who lived where rushes grew, or metonymic
occupational name for a weaver of rush matting.Polish: unflattering nickname from bies ‘devil’, ‘Satan’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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