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begun Name Meaning and History

Jewish (from Belarus): nickname from Belorussian begun ‘runner’, ‘one who walks quickly’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of begun Families in the US in 1920
Number of begun families
 11-20
 4-10
 1-3
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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