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Boone

in the US

There are 41,925 people with the last name "Boone" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Boone 594
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  1. is 590th most common David
  2. is 591st most common Atkins
  3. is 592nd most common Hancock
  4. is 593rd most common Booth
  5. is 594th most common Boone
  6. is 595th most common Ayala
  7. is 596th most common Christian
  8. is 597th most common Marks
  9. is 598th most common Walter

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Boone

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

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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