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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beachain ‘descendant of Beachán’, a personal name from a diminutive of beach ‘bee’.
  • Irish : Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name Beathán, a derivative of beatha ‘life’ (see Bean 3).

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