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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern English : nickname meaning ‘bones’. Compare Bain 2.
  • Scottish : reduced form of McBane, with English patronymic -s.
  • English, of Welsh origin : Anglicized form of Welsh ab Einws ‘son of Einws’, a pet form of the personal name Einon (see Eynon).
  • English : from a derivative of Bain.

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