Is 'beet' a Christian or Jewish surname?

Question

Ok I'm not racist so stop with that. I'm just curious. I'm jewish.

Answer 1

Take your pick ! none of these are specifically "Jewish" but there is no reason why a person of the Jewish faith could not be so named.

Beet :

This most interesting and unusual name derives from an early medieval English personal name "Betw", a pet form of "Beton", which itself comes from "Beatrice", a medieval French female given name, borne in honour of a 4th Century saint who was martyred with her brothers, Simplicius and Faustinus. Her name was originally "Viatrix", traveller, adopted by early Christians in reference to the journey through life, and Christ's description of Himself as "the way, the truth and the life". The surname first appears in records in the late 13th Century (see below) and is also found in the modern idiom as "Beat". Beet and Betw were familiar names in Yorkshire where Beatrice was very popular as a personal name in the 13th and 14th Centuries. Alicia and Johannes Bete were recorded in the Poll Tax Records of Yorkshire in 1379. Further early recordings of the name include the marriage of Doritye Beyt and Thomas Hammond on October 14th 1589 at St. Margaret's, Westminster, London; the marriage of Thomas Beetes and Annis Meredith on August 17th 1590 at St. Katherine by the Tower, London; and the marriage of Agnes Beet to Richard Ramson on May 16th 1591 at St. Matthew's, Friday Street, London. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Adam Bete, which was dated 1298, in the "Descriptive Catalogue of Derbyshire Charters", during the reign of King Edward 1st, known as "The Hammer of the Scots", 1272 -1307.

Beat  

Last name origins & meanings:

Scottish: variant of Bate or Beath.

English and Scottish: from a short form of the female personal name Beton

Beets  

Last name origins & meanings:

Dutch: patronymic from a short form of a Germanic personal name beginning with the element berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’.

Dutch: habitational name from a village in Friesland called Beets.

English: outside East Anglia, possibly a respelling of Scottish Beats, a variant of Beat. In East Anglia, however, where the name is concentrated, it is of Dutch origin, as evidenced by the census of 1881.

Probably a respelling of German Beetz.

Beetz  

Last name origins & meanings:

German: habitational name from a place so named on the Havel river, northwest of Berlin.

Answer 2

You are trying to identify a name by religion and that is not possible.

A lot of names get identified as Jewish in the U.S., because a large portion of immigrants to this country with certain surnames were Jewish while back in their home countries, the same names were held by Jews and Christians.  People in Europe didn't have surnames until the last melennium.  When they took one or were assigned one they were based on a) being the son of someone b) their occupaiton c) where they lived d) some characteristic about them.  So Jews and Christians frequently had the same surnames.

Also, Orthodox and Conservative Judaism defines a Jew by the mother not the father.

They state they get the nation from the mother and the tribe from the father.  If they don't have a Jewish father they belong to the tribe of the nearest male relative on the mother's side of the family. Tribe does not necessarily mean one of the 12 tribes as stated in the Old Testament.   Whereas if they don't have a Jewish mother, the only way they can be Jewish is to convert to Judaism.

Reform Judaism sees it differently.

Answer 3

I don't know but it doesn't matter unless you are rasisst that's first, and there are many names that arebouth  jewish and  christian like Ben and Tom.

Answer 4

It's an ethnic name, but not a religious name. Few names in the world can be picked off and definitively claim to be solely Jewish or solely Christian. Even Koch is a Christian name, even though a few famous people with that name have been Jewish. You'd have to look through records from their hometown through the LDS library to find out if there are church and synagogue records available on film. If there are, then you can figure it out. If not, it's a mystery that may have died with them.

Answer 5

Appears to be of Christian origin

http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?na...

Answer 6

it's a vegetable