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Boone

in North Carolina

There are 4,254 people with the last name "Boone" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

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Boone 193
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  1. is 189th most common Leonard
  2. is 190th most common Reed
  3. is 191st most common Holmes
  4. is 192nd most common Shelton
  5. is 193rd most common Boone
  6. is 194th most common Grant
  7. is 195th most common Rhodes
  8. is 196th most common Chapman
  9. is 197th most common Brewer

Similar Names and Nicknames

Bohn, Boon, Bonney, Buono, Bohm, Bonn, Bonnie, Bonneau, Bown, Boonstra

Most Common First Names for Boone

James, William, Robert, David, Mary, Jerry, John, Michael, Daniel, Charles

Meaning & History

English (of Norman origin): from a nickname meaning ‘good’, from Old French bon ‘good’. Compare Bone 1.

English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Bohon in La Manche, France, of obscure etymology.

Dutch: from Middle Dutch bone, boene ‘bean’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a bean grower or a nickname for a man of little importance (broad beans having been an extremely common crop in the medieval period), or possibly for a tall thin man (with reference to the runner bean).

FOREBEARS The renowned American frontiersman Daniel Boone (1734–1820) was born in Reading, PA, into a Quaker family. His grandfather was a weaver who had emigrated from Exeter in England to Philadelphia in 1717.

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