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bohn Name Meaning and History

  1. North German: variant of Bode.
  2. German: metonymic occupational name for a grower of beans, from Middle High German, Middle Low German bone ‘bean’. Beans were a staple food in the Middle Ages, especially the broad bean, Vicia faba; the green bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, was not introduced from South America until the late 16th century.

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Distribution of bohn Families in the US in 1920
Number of bohn families
 96-189
 33-95		 1-32
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