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Bean

in Pennsylvania

There are 1,050 people with the last name "Bean" in Pennsylvania.

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Ranking in Pennsylvania

NameRank
Bean 1,045
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  1. is 1,041st most common Lowery
  2. is 1,042nd most common Serrano
  3. is 1,043rd most common Rubin
  4. is 1,044th most common Ambrose
  5. is 1,045th most common Bean
  6. is 1,046th most common Koehler
  7. is 1,047th most common Coyne
  8. is 1,048th most common Kirkpatrick
  9. is 1,049th most common Weston

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bean

John, Robert, Michael, James, David, Ronald, Thomas, William, Brian, 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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