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Bean

in Indiana

There are 748 people with the last name "Bean" in Indiana.

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Ranking in Indiana

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Bean 850
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  1. is 846th most common Anthony
  2. is 847th most common Guthrie
  3. is 848th most common Rhoades
  4. is 849th most common Haley
  5. is 850th most common Bean
  6. is 851st most common Deaton
  7. is 852nd most common Joseph
  8. is 853rd most common Helms
  9. is 854th most common Holman

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bean

David, John, Michael, James, Robert, William, Kimberly, Richard, Debra, Joseph

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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