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

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

## C

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

## D

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* 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

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* 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

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

## H

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

## I

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* Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (born 1954), Dutch sociolinguist

## J

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* 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

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* Karel Boon [fr; nl] (1909–1996), Dutch art historian and museum curator
* Kevin Alexander Boon (born 1956), American writer and filmmaker

## L

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* Louis Paul Boon (1912–1979), Flemish novelist

## M

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* Martin J. Boon (1840–1888), British trade unionist
* Mick Boon (1902–1988), New Zealand cricketer
* Mike Boon (born 1970), New Zealand stand-up comedian

## N

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* Nika Boon, British singer-songwriter

## R

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* 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

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* Stuart Boon (1934–1989), English cricketer

## T

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* Thierry Boon (born 1944), Belgian immunologist
* Tim Boon (born 1961), English cricketer
* Tom Boon (born 1990), Belgian field hockey player

## W

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* William Boon (1911–1994), British chemist

## Van der Boon

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* Anthony Hendrik van der Boon Mesch [de; nl] (1804–1874), Dutch chemist and University Dean
* Karla van der Boon (born 1968), Dutch water polo goalkeeper

## See also

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* Boom (surname)
* Boone (surname)

## References

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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]

Surname list

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