Bien Family History
- Bien Name Meaning
- Polish (Bien): from a short form of the personal names Benedykt (see Benedict) or Beniamin (see Benjamin). Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from a pet form of the personal name Beniamin (see Benjamin). Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name from Yiddish bin ‘bee’, German Bien(e), or a metonymic occupational name for a beekeeper. German: from the dialect word Bien ‘bee’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a beekeeper or nickname for an industrious person. Vietnamese (Biên): unexplained.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 49,160 Historical Documents with Bien on Ancestry
- 26,477 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,278 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,868 Military Records
- 2,268 Immigration Records
- 11,269 Member Trees
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Number of Bien families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bien families
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6 - 10 3 - 5 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bien census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Bien census records
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