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name origin help???
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04-30-2005, 12:50 AM
what would the origin of the name Bebe be?, i.e. saxon, welsh etc. the name comes from england.
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04-30-2005, 02:59 PM
Are you sure its origins aren't in France, meaning 'baby'?
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05-02-2005, 01:04 AM
maybe, when france was still gaul, the name was certainly in britain in the dark ages though.
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05-02-2005, 10:17 AM
Apart from the very common bame in Fench (baby), I only found a medieval link to British Leicestershire, in the form of the Beebe family.

Another explanation is that the original form is Bede, and Bebe a scribal error, since repeated.

Bebe is also short for Bebe Shahrbanu, a name applied to ancient Iranian Goddess Anahita after the arrival of Islam. All localities with a temple dedicated to Anahita are normally known as cave of Bebe or mountain of Shahrbanu etc. Anahita was the goddess of all waters her statues with her beast lion was present near all water sources.
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05-02-2005, 11:57 AM
is the beebe name from leicestershire saxon?

I would think that bede definently is, and very famous!
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