Bein Family History
- Bein Name Meaning
- 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’). 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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 50,663 Historical Documents with Bein on Ancestry
- 26,852 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,302 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,232 Military Records
- 3,257 Immigration Records
- 9,020 Member Trees
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Number of Bein families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bein census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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