Beane Family Crest & Name History

Your Beane ancestor may well appear as Bean in earlier records. Name scholars give the meaning as “Bean grower, or son of Beathan”.

Beane and Bean

Beane adds “e” to Bean, a small change that crept in as the name was written down. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Beene.

In the 2010 US Census, 5,142 Americans gave Beane as their last name (rank 6,588). Beane sounds close to Baine, so it can help to search both.

Heraldry and the Beane name

Arms linked to Bean and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Want more than a summary? See the Beane family name pack.