Last name origins & meanings:
- North German: variant of Bode.
- German: metonymic
occupational name for a grower of beans, from Middle High German,
Middle Low German bōne ‘bean’. Beans were a staple food in
the Middle Ages, especially the broad bean, Vicia faba; the
green bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, was not introduced from South
America until the late 16th century.
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