Släkthistoria för Beguin
Beguin Vad efternamn betyder
French (also Béguin):: from a diminutive of the ancient Germanic personal name Bego a short form of compound names based on the element beg from Latin beccus ‘beak bill’. nickname from beguin the name for a member of a medieval Christian male religious community (ultimately named after a priest called Lambert le Begue; see Begue) that followed a monastic rule without making perpetual vows and was quickly considered heretic; by extension the term came to mean ‘sanctimonious person’.
Källa: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
