Boon Family History
Boon Name Meaning
English: variant of Boone . Dutch: from a shortened form of the personal name Boudijn itself shortened from Boudewijn (see Baldwin ) or from Latin Bonifatius (see Boniface ) a Christian saint's name. Dutch: from boon ‘bean’ hence a metonymic occupational name for a bean grower or perhaps a nickname for a tall thin man (with reference to the stringbean). Chinese: Teochew or Hokkien or Hainanese Romanization of the surname 文 see Wen
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022