Biès
surname · Latin script
Biès is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Two main origins: * Borrowed from Dutch and North German Bies, a topographic surname from bies (“rush; sedge”). * Borrowed from Polish Bies, an unflattering nickname from bies (“devil, demon”).
- NLNetherlands1 in 41K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 67K
- FIFinland1 in 155K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- 1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
977 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bies in US United States, NL Netherlands.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Dutchand(measured from records)
- Dutch rootbies“rush; sedge”(measured from records)
- PolishBies(measured from records)
- Polish rootbies“devil“devil, demon”(measured from records)
Two main origins: * Borrowed from Dutch and North German Bies, a topographic surname from bies (“rush; sedge”). * Borrowed from Polish Bies, an unflattering nickname from bies (“devil, demon”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Biès counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 977 | 1 in 340K | 992 | Bies | 17 |
| PL Poland | 574 | 1 in 67K | 292 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 418 | 1 in 41K | 418 | Bies | 6 |
| AR Argentina | 159 | 1 in 286K | 159 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 36 | 1 in 155K | 36 | — | — |
977 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Biès mean, and where does it come from?
- Two main origins: * Borrowed from Dutch and North German Bies, a topographic surname from bies (“rush; sedge”). * Borrowed from Polish Bies, an unflattering nickname from bies (“devil, demon”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Biès have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 977 people named Biès, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bies.
- Where is Biès most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Biès is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 41 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Biès?
- In the United States, the national register counted 977 people named Biès in 2010, about 1 in 340 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bi%C3%A8sThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Biès”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.