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Bean

in North Carolina

There are 1,180 people with the last name "Bean" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

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Bean 916
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  1. is 912th most common Olson
  2. is 913th most common Schultz
  3. is 914th most common Bunch
  4. is 915th most common Barr
  5. is 916th most common Bean
  6. is 917th most common Beal
  7. is 918th most common Hooks
  8. is 919th most common Womack
  9. is 920th most common Huneycutt

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bean

James, John, Michael, William, David, Richard, Charles, Robert, Donna, Karen

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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