Last Name BACON

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Meaning	Nickname: The Bacon, a swineherd's sobriquet. Bacon, from the Anglo-Saxon bacan, to bake, to dry by heat . Some derive this surname from the Saxon baccen or buccen, a beech-tree. Upon the monument of Thomas Bacon, in Brome Church in Suffolk (Eng.), there is a beechtree engraven in brass, with a man resting under it. It appears, also, that the first Lord-keeper, Sir Nicholas Bacon, with his two wives, are represented in a similar manner.

Origin	English, Jewish, Dutch, Irish, Belgian, South african, Hungarian

Rank	1,094 (2000 US census)	1,041 (1990 US census)

Count	29,312 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

77.16%, or 22617 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
18.05%, or 5291 total occurrences, as black,
0.72%, or 211 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.27%, or 372 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.36%, or 399 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.44%, or 422 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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