About the Bebee Surname

Written in a baptism entry or a ship's list, Bebee usually leads back to Beebe. Taken at its root, Bebee points to “Bee keeper / bee hollow”.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Beebe and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

A variant of Beebe

Before spelling was fixed, Beebe was also written Bebee. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Beeby.

The 2010 US Census counted 1,140 people named Bebee, ranking it number 22,543 among American surnames. For the full story, order the Bebee surname pack.