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Bean

in Iowa

There are 396 people with the last name "Bean" in Iowa.

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Ranking in Iowa

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Bean 693
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  1. is 689th most common Reiter
  2. is 690th most common Mccabe
  3. is 691st most common Ries
  4. is 692nd most common Neff
  5. is 693rd most common Bean
  6. is 694th most common Case
  7. is 695th most common Mathews
  8. is 696th most common Daniel
  9. is 697th most common Humphrey

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bean

Charles, Carol, Craig, Dorothy, Douglas, Greg, Jeffrey, Jerry, Larry, Lisa

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.

Recent Searches for "Bean" in Iowa

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Charles Bean, IA (8 searches)
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