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bacon Name Meaning and History

  1. English and French: metonymic occupational name for a preparer and seller of cured pork, from Middle English, Old French bacun, bacon ‘bacon’ (a word of Germanic origin, akin to Back 1).
  2. English and French: from the Germanic personal name Bac(c)o, Bahho, from the root bag- ‘to fight’. The name was relatively common among the Normans in the form Bacus, of which the oblique case was Bacon.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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bacon Family Facts

Distribution of bacon Families in the US in 1920
Number of bacon families
 282-561
 95-281		 1-94
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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