Bane
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Frequency: (1989)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. English: variant spelling of Bain.
2. Irish: variant of Bain 1.
3. Perhaps French, an occupational name from Old French ban(n)e ‘hamper’, ‘large basket’.
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