Boon Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Long before computers fixed spellings, Boon and Boone were used side by side. Name scholars give the meaning as “From Bohon in Normandy, or good”. Boon drops the “e” of Boone, a simplification that clerks often made. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Bone and Bohun.

Boon ranked 13,370 in the 2010 US Census, with 2,279 people answering to the name. From 1891 to 2000, 211 births in France were registered under Boon. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Bown, Boni and Bohn.

There is no single Boon family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were. Want more than a summary? See the Boon family name pack.