Hanks, Patrick. Dictionary of American family names. (New York, New York: Oxford University Press, c2003).
BEY-1. North German and Frisian... 2. French habitational name from any of the places so named in Ain, Meurthe-et-Moselle, or Saone-et-Loire. 3. French (Burgundy) topographic name for someone who lived by a mill stream. 4. Muslim...