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Bean

in Alabama

There are 851 people with the last name "Bean" in Alabama.

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Ranking in Alabama

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Bean 738
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  1. is 734th most common Bonds
  2. is 735th most common Lackey
  3. is 736th most common Wolfe
  4. is 737th most common Atkinson
  5. is 738th most common Bean
  6. is 739th most common Mcclure
  7. is 740th most common Snyder
  8. is 741st most common Couch
  9. is 742nd most common Summers

Similar Names and Nicknames

Beam, Beane, Benn, Behm, Beene, Beans, Beem, Boan, Behn, Been

Most Common First Names for Bean

Robert, James, Michael, William, Mary, David, Thomas, Charles, Donald, John

Meaning & History

English: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of beans, from Old English bēan ‘beans’ (a collective singular). Occasionally it may have been applied as a nickname for a someone considered of little importance.

English: nickname for a pleasant person, from Middle English bēne ‘friendly’, ‘amiable’ (of unknown origin; there is apparently no connection with Bain or Bon).

Scottish: Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name Beathán, a diminutive of beatha ‘life’.

Translation of German Bohne, or an altered spelling of Biehn. See also Bihn.

Mistranslation of French Lefevre. As the vocabulary word fèvre ‘smith’ was replaced by forgeron, the meaning of the old word became opaque, and the surname was reinterpreted as if it were La fève, from fève ‘(fava) bean’. Lefevre is the most common name in French Canada; great numbers of them migrated to the US, where many adopted the name Bean, in the belief that it was a translation of Lefèvre. See also Lafave.

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