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Beard

in New Hampshire

There are 130 people with the last name "Beard" in New Hampshire.

Ranking in New Hampshire

Name	Rank
Beard	1,336

is 1,332nd most common Santiago
is 1,333rd most common Snell
is 1,334th most common Tate
is 1,335th most common True
is 1,336th most common Beard
is 1,337th most common Blouin
is 1,338th most common Bunker
is 1,339th most common Cooke
is 1,340th most common Hibbard

Meaning & History

Beard

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’.