Bean

in Michigan

There are 1,161 people with the last name "Bean" in Michigan.

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Ranking in Michigan

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Bean 723
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  1. is 719th most common Baird
  2. is 720th most common Lester
  3. is 721st most common Proctor
  4. is 722nd most common Childs
  5. is 723rd most common Bean
  6. is 724th most common Chen
  7. is 725th most common Dunlap
  8. is 726th most common Deboer
  9. is 727th most common Durham

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bean

Robert, David, Michael, James, Charles, John, Mary, Jeffrey, Patricia, Richard



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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