Last Name BEASANT

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Meaning	Local: Of Byzantium. A bisaunt, bezant, or bizantine was an old goin in cold and silver, and so called from having been minted at Byzantium. The silver bezant passed current for thereabouts. As almost every coin has its representativ in our nomenclature, so may this one. More probably, however, like Turk and Saracen, it is local denoting an immigrant from Byzantium.

Origin	English, Irish

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Longest last names

The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...