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behan Name Meaning and History

  1. Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beachain ‘descendant of Beachán’, a personal name from a diminutive of beach ‘bee’.
  2. Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name Beathán, a derivative of beatha ‘life’ (see Bean 3).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of behan Families in the US in 1920
Number of behan families
 82-161
 28-81		 1-27
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 87 - Messages: 229
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Behans Dublin & Wicklow maighreadh 1
BEHAN FAMILY gordonbain 5
Thomas Behan mohara_gsy 0
Patrick Behan Obituary wswatm6 1
BEHAN records, Dromtarriff, Cork, Ireland debraanderson15 6
Behan Variants. / Distribution of Surname in Ireland debraanderson15 0
Behan Family _ Queensland Australia Pat Dunworth 2
behan's in queensland, australia paddy behan 2
Behan, Murphy, Halifax Nove Scotia, 1905-1915 (approx) Brendan M Hynes Jr 2
Kildare Behans johnmbehan 15
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