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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : nickname from been ‘leg’, probably a nickname for a cripple.
  • Dutch : occupational name for a butcher.
  • Dutch : from a short form of any of the various Germanic personal names beginning with the element Ber(n)- ‘bear’, as for example Bernhard.
  • English : variant spelling of Bean.

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