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bee Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: reduced form of McBee, a variant of McBeth.
  2. English: from Middle English be ‘bee’, Old English beo, hence a nickname for an energetic or active person or a metonymic occupational name for a beekeeper. Compare Beeman 2.

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

Distribution of bee Families in the US in 1920
Number of bee families
 44-86
 15-43		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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