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bonesteel Name Meaning and History

  1. Americanized spelling of North German Bohnestiel, a metonymic occupational name for a bean grower or a nickname for a very tall person, from Low German Bohne ‘bean’ + Stiel ‘stalk’.
  2. Americanized spelling of French Bonôtal ‘good hotel’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bonesteel Families in the US in 1920
Number of bonesteel families
 48-94
 17-47
 1-16
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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