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Bean

in California

There are 1,971 people with the last name "Bean" in California.

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Ranking in California

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Bean 1,432
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  1. is 1,428th most common Diamond
  2. is 1,429th most common Riggs
  3. is 1,430th most common Ames
  4. is 1,431st most common Moses
  5. is 1,432nd most common Bean
  6. is 1,433rd most common Holman
  7. is 1,434th most common Mackey
  8. is 1,435th most common Pinto
  9. is 1,436th most common Orosco

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bean

James, David, Michael, Robert, Richard, John, George, Mary, William, Donald

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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