Debai meaning | Last name Debai origin

Debai is the form of Bard. Descendnt of Bard or Bart, pet forms of Bartholomew meaning son of Talmi, furrow. Descendant of the poet or bard.

Family name Debai is variant of Baird. Descendant of the poet or bard or one who came from Bard, in Scotland.

Variation of Beard. One who came from Beard meaning "bank", in Derbyshire. It may also mean "one who had an unusually hairy chin".

Lastname Debai is the variant form of Bayard. Brown-complexioned. Pierre du Terrail dit Bayard probably received his nam from his complexion; but in Romance "bayard" signifies spectattor or gazer, curious, eager, attentive.

Family name Debai is the variant of the Baird. Said to be the Scottish form of bard, or poe. This, however, is doubtful as to the surname, which in North Britain is widely spread. Its principal modes of spelling have been Bard, Byrd, Bayard. The last supports the tradition of a derivation from the south of France, the country of the Chevalier Bayard, the knight sans peur, sans reproche.

That the family are numerous is not to be wondered at, if even a few of them have been as prolific as was Gilbert Baird of Auchmudden, who by his wife Lilias had 32 children; this was in the XVI. century That great prophet, Thomas the Rymer, is said to have predicted that "there shall be an eagle in the craig while there is a Baird in Auchmedden." And it is asserted that, when the estate changed hands in the last century the eagles deserted their eyrie—only to return, however, when the lands reverted to a Baird. |Account of name of Baird, Edinburgh, 1857.

Surname is the variation of Beard. When the unnatural process of shaving was unknown, as it was during a great part of the middleages, many persons were known by sobriquets having reference to this appendage to the manly chin. Besides Beard, we have, or have had, Blackbeard, Fairbeard, Longbeard, Heavybeard, and Beardman. A common form in Hundred Rolls is cum Barba, as Hugo cum Barba, Johannes cum Barba. In Domesday the powerful Hugh de Montfort is some times described as Hugo Barbatus. The name may, however, be local, from Beard, a township in Derbyshire.