Last name: BOON
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BOON : This last name is indexed 310,644 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BOON : 1: English: variant of Boone.2: 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.3: 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).4: Chinese: Teochew or Hokkien or Hainanese Romanization of the surname 文 see Wen 2.
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