Behan Family History
- Behan Name Meaning
- Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beachain ‘descendant of Beachán’, a personal name from a diminutive of beach ‘bee’. Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name Beathán, a derivative of beatha ‘life’ (see Bean 3).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 123,719 Historical Documents with Behan on Ancestry
- 55,678 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 27,716 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,371 Military Records
- 5,516 Immigration Records
- 30,438 Member Trees
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Number of Behan families
 25 - 48  9 - 24 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Behan families
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7 - 12 3 - 6 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Behan census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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