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Bean

in New Hampshire

There are 659 people with the last name "Bean" in New Hampshire.

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Ranking in New Hampshire

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Bean 170
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  1. is 166th most common Shea
  2. is 167th most common Doyle
  3. is 168th most common Croteau
  4. is 169th most common Sweeney
  5. is 170th most common Bean
  6. is 171st most common Lawrence
  7. is 172nd most common Greene
  8. is 173rd most common Butler
  9. is 174th most common Pierce

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bean

Robert, Richard, David, Michael, Margaret, William, Kevin, James, Kenneth, Charles

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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