Bohannon
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English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Buadhachanáin (“descendant of Buadhachanán”), a double diminutive of buadhach (“victorious”).
Proper noun
[edit]Bohannon (countable and uncountable, plural Bohannons)
- A surname from Irish.
- An unincorporated community in Mathews County, Virginia, United States.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Bohannon is the 3677th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 9663 individuals. Bohannon is most common among White (80.59%) and Black/African American (14.25%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bohannon”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 184.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Irish
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Irish
- en:Unincorporated communities in Virginia, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in Virginia, USA
- en:Places in the United States