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Habitational name for someone from Beaumais-sur-Dire in Calvados Beaumetz in Somme or one of three places called Beaumetz in Pas-de-Calais, all in northern France. In some cases it may be derived from a place called Beamish in County Durham. It has also been used as an Americanized form of Böhmisch.
English (Suffolk) and Irish (Cork) of Norman origin.