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Bean

in Maine

There are 869 people with the last name "Bean" in Maine.

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Ranking in Maine

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Bean 188
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  1. is 184th most common Black
  2. is 185th most common Burgess
  3. is 186th most common Mills
  4. is 187th most common Gould
  5. is 188th most common Bean
  6. is 189th most common Griffin
  7. is 190th most common Hebert
  8. is 191st most common Morris
  9. is 192nd most common Stanley

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bean

Robert, Richard, David, Barbara, Michael, William, James, Jennifer, 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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