as a Last Name
- 807
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Biss
Meaning & Origins
English and Scottish: from Middle English bis, biss(e), bice, byse ‘dingy’, ‘dark’, ‘gray’, ‘murky’; ‘dark fur used for trimming and lining garments’ (Old French bis(e), of Germanic origin), hence a nickname for someone with an unhealthy complexion or someone who habitually dressed in particularly drab garments, or (from the noun) a metonymic occupational name for a furrier or maker of furtrimmed garments.
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 807
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alaska
- has the most people named Biss per capita
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