BISSとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Beese

語源

Two main origins:

• English surname from 中期英語 bis (“dark, murky, gray”), an adjective related to French bis (“beige”) and Italian bigio (“ash gray, dun”).
• Borrowed from German Biss (“bite”), a nickname for a cutting, sarcastic person.

固有名詞

Biss (plural Bisses)

1. A surname from German or Middle English or transferred from the nickname.
   • 2025 September 19, Alisha Ebrahimji, Emma Tucker, “Chicago-area mayor says federal agents teargassed him at a protest outside an ICE facility”, in CNN‎:

     A Democratic mayor running for Congress in Illinois, Daniel Biss posted video Friday from a protest outside an ICE facility near Chicago where he said he was teargassed.

統計情報

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Biss is the 30222 most common surname in the United States, belonging to 775 individuals. Biss is most common among White (96.13%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Biss”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 165.