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Bean

in South Carolina

There are 297 people with the last name "Bean" in South Carolina.

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Ranking in South Carolina

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Bean 1,791
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  1. is 1,787th most common Knapp
  2. is 1,788th most common Lilly
  3. is 1,789th most common Sadler
  4. is 1,790th most common Wesley
  5. is 1,791st most common Bean
  6. is 1,792nd most common Blalock
  7. is 1,793rd most common Dominick
  8. is 1,794th most common Jewell
  9. is 1,795th most common Lark

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Bean

David, William, Robert, Diane, James, Janet, Michael, Daniel, Jason, 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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