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Beard

in Missouri

There are 1,181 people with the last name "Beard" in Missouri.

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Ranking in Missouri

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Beard 489
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  1. is 485th most common Davenport
  2. is 486th most common Waters
  3. is 487th most common Christian
  4. is 488th most common Atkinson
  5. is 489th most common Beard
  6. is 490th most common Drake
  7. is 491st most common Mathis
  8. is 492nd most common Crane
  9. is 493rd most common Gentry

Similar Names and Nicknames

Bearden, Bear, Beardsley, Beers, Berrios, Byars, Board, Beardslee, Byard, Bearce

Most Common First Names for Beard

James, Mary, Michael, John, Robert, William, David, Brian, Charles, Paul

Meaning & History

English:

  • 1. nickname for a bearded man (Middle English, Old English beard). To be clean-shaven was the norm in non-Jewish communities in northwestern Europe from the 12th to the 16th century, the crucial period for surname formation. There is a place name and other evidence to show that this word was used as a byname in the Old English period, when beards were the norm; in this period the byname would have referred to a large or noticeable beard. As an American surname, this name has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other languages, in particular German Bart.
  • 2. habitational name from a place in Derbyshire, which derives its name by dissimilation from Old English brerd ‘rim’, ‘bank’.

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