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bein Name Meaning and History

  1. German: from Bein ‘bone’, ‘leg’, as a nickname for a cripple or for someone who was exceptionally long-legged. In some cases it may be a short form of a compound name containing this element such as Langbein (‘long leg’), Stelzbein (‘peg leg’).
  2. North German: from a short form of the personal name Bernhard. In Low German the older short form Behn (see Behn) was diphthongized to Bein.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bein Families in the US in 1920
Number of bein families
 23-43
 8-22		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 23 - Messages: 66
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Louise Pearl Moretz Beihn dies Klamath Falls Kathi 1
genealogy Lothar Bein 5
Bein thinkbig1 2
Bein WGFGER 0
BEIN > Posen, Germany > Chicago, IL dmpafl1 2
HELP!! BEIN, Denver Co. JDBein 0
Gussie Bein/Nathan Zorn Mildred Fink 0
Bein, Beign, Beihn, Von Beighn Debi Wahl 2
genealogy Lothar Bein 22
Adam Bein, 1926 - 2004 WGF 0
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