Boon (surname)

This article is about the surname. For other uses, see Boon.
For the Chinese surname 文, pronounced Boon in Min dialects, see Wen (surname 文).

Boon is a surname that can be of Dutch, Old French or Chinese origin. The rather common Dutch name Boon (Dutch pronunciation: [boːn]) often represents a patronymic, where the given name Boon was a short form of Boudewijn, Bonifacius or Bonaventure. Alternatively, boon meaning "bean" in Dutch, it can have a metonymic or metaphorical origin, referring to someone growing or selling beans, or one of small stature, respectively.[1] The English surname can be from an attested variant form of Bohon/Bohun, a family descending from a Norman knight.[2]

Notable people with the surname include:

A

  • Alethea Boon (born 1984), Fiji-born New Zealand gymnast and weightlifter
  • Amos Boon (born 1972), Singaporean football goalkeeper

C

  • Charles Boon (1877–1943), English publisher
  • Clint Boon (born 1959), English musician, DJ and radio presenter

D

  • D. Boon (1958–1985), American punk guitarist and singer of The Minutemen
  • Dante Boon (born 1973), Dutch composer and pianist
  • Dany Boon stage name of Daniel Hamidou (born 1966), French comedian
  • David Boon (born 1960), Australian cricketer
  • Dickie Boon (1878–1961), Canadian ice hockey forward and manager

E

  • Ed Boon (born 1964), American video game programmer; co-creator of Mortal Kombat
  • Emilie Boon (born 1959), Dutch-born American children's book author and illustrator
  • Eric Boon (1919–1981), English boxer

G

  • Gerrit Boon (1768–1821), Dutch agent of the Holland Land Company, settler of Boonville, New York

H

  • Hugh P. Boon (1831–1908), American Union soldier in the American Civil War

I

J

  • Jaak Boon (born 1948), Belgian television writer
  • Jan Boon (1911–1974), Dutch writer, journalist, and activist
  • Jazz Boon, Hong Kong television producer, director, and writer
  • Jill Boon (born 1987), Belgian field hockey player
  • John D. Boon (1817–1864), American merchant and Oregon politician

K

L

M

N

R

  • Ratliff Boon (1781–1844), American politician, Governor of Indiana in 1822
  • Robert Boon (1916–2015), Dutch-born American film, television, and theater actor
  • Ronnie Boon (1909–1998), Welsh rugby player

S

T

W

Van der Boon

See also

References

  1. ^ Boon at the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands.
  2. ^ ″The Bohun Wills″ (Melville M.) Bigelow, in The American Historical Review, Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Historical Association 1896, Vol. 1, No. 3 p. 1. [1]