Bacon Surname

7,861^st

Most Common

surname in the World

Approximately 72,247 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:

United States

Highest density in:

Guernsey

Bacon Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a nickname. 'the Bacon,' a swineherd's sobriquet . A very common nick, in the Hundred Rolls; compare Pigg, Wildbore, Hogg, affording proof that Bacon may have been used of a live pig originally.

John le Bacon.

Bacon Surname Distribution Map

Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
United States	41,170	1:8,804	1,062
England	12,819	1:4,347	586
Canada	4,613	1:7,987	1,177
Australia	3,506	1:7,700	1,142
France	2,715	1:24,465	2,902
Philippines	2,119	1:47,776	7,775
Peru	1,436	1:22,134	2,501
South Africa	609	1:88,962	10,902
New Zealand	449	1:10,085	1,753
Northern Ireland	278	1:6,637	1,191
Brazil	254	1:842,812	30,419
Scotland	202	1:26,504	2,864
Wales	190	1:16,287	1,760
Ireland	178	1:26,455	2,454
Ivory Coast	160	1:144,195	6,801
Ecuador	121	1:131,453	6,795
Iraq	110	1:318,379	6,214
Israel	105	1:81,501	9,827
Liberia	95	1:46,406	4,181
Spain	79	1:591,798	27,792
Guernsey	73	1:883	146
Japan	71	1:1,800,624	26,471
Switzerland	67	1:122,581	12,361
Argentina	66	1:647,627	45,225
Nicaragua	56	1:107,519	1,941
Guyana	45	1:16,938	2,216
Thailand	43	1:1,642,752	213,663
Netherlands	42	1:402,076	42,431
Germany	39	1:2,064,243	111,952
Chile	33	1:533,833	13,415
Belgium	29	1:396,436	41,978
India	29	1:26,450,530	346,896
Kuwait	29	1:131,058	14,967
Benin	28	1:369,129	27,947
Singapore	26	1:211,835	10,313
Qatar	25	1:94,320	10,875
Dominican Republic	23	1:453,606	14,824
Zimbabwe	23	1:671,228	49,171
Nigeria	21	1:8,435,369	179,591
Greece	19	1:583,147	70,237
Indonesia	16	1:8,265,575	327,276
New Caledonia	16	1:17,264	4,719
China	14	1:97,665,826	5,141
Guam	12	1:13,343	2,098
Sweden	12	1:820,563	61,223
Guatemala	11	1:1,462,061	5,661
Italy	11	1:5,559,699	110,230
Bermuda	10	1:6,528	1,005
Isle of Man	10	1:8,582	1,778
Taiwan	9	1:2,604,972	16,335
Panama	8	1:489,032	8,962
Austria	7	1:1,216,491	80,919
Jersey	7	1:14,172	2,872
Hong Kong	6	1:1,222,580	5,222
Mexico	6	1:20,687,701	53,861
Senegal	6	1:2,429,890	4,996
Afghanistan	5	1:6,430,637	27,710
Russia	5	1:28,824,611	530,332
Bahamas	4	1:97,938	1,027
Czechia	4	1:2,658,367	127,801
Haiti	4	1:2,670,977	16,453
Malta	4	1:107,568	1,849
Saudi Arabia	4	1:7,713,954	37,548
Trinidad and Tobago	4	1:340,994	12,383
Egypt	3	1:30,645,251	132,600
Malaysia	3	1:9,831,408	269,765
Norway	3	1:1,714,095	79,528
Turkey	3	1:25,940,474	162,557
Honduras	2	1:4,408,221	7,709
Malawi	2	1:8,559,554	34,093
Myanmar	2	1:25,968,992	2,110
Poland	2	1:19,004,374	199,659
United Arab Emirates	2	1:4,581,136	93,443
Bangladesh	1	1:159,356,773	26,077
Barbados	1	1:287,448	2,772
Belize	1	1:355,474	3,977
Bhutan	1	1:616,039	1,715
Cambodia	1	1:15,487,146	14,824
Cameroon	1	1:20,769,068	227,406
Cayman Islands	1	1:63,893	2,384
Colombia	1	1:47,774,072	44,230
Costa Rica	1	1:4,780,069	13,345
Eritrea	1	1:4,751,901	911
Finland	1	1:5,496,702	84,025
French Polynesia	1	1:280,805	7,211
Georgia	1	1:3,745,545	47,852
Ghana	1	1:27,020,692	23,742
Grenada	1	1:108,535	1,793
Kenya	1	1:46,179,900	103,372
Lebanon	1	1:5,637,083	32,436
Luxembourg	1	1:580,542	15,155
Macau	1	1:601,630	1,582
Mauritius	1	1:1,293,417	16,552
Namibia	1	1:2,409,401	19,676
Northern Mariana Islands	1	1:54,580	1,498
Papua New Guinea	1	1:8,153,717	181,784
Portugal	1	1:10,418,241	25,048
Romania	1	1:20,077,870	89,414
Saint Lucia	1	1:178,781	3,800
South Korea	1	1:51,240,256	8,015
Sudan	1	1:37,510,195	14,259
Tanzania	1	1:52,941,613	123,716
Turkmenistan	1	1:5,489,112	11,427
Ukraine	1	1:45,522,696	503,646
United States Virgin Islands	1	1:110,375	6,934
Uruguay	1	1:3,431,758	38,295
Vietnam	1	1:92,646,054	8,382
Yemen	1	1:26,425,294	55,147

Show All Nations

Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
Ireland	226	1:19,601	2,332

Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
England	7,440	1:3,276	464
Scotland	50	1:74,864	4,249
Wales	41	1:38,254	2,050
Guernsey	5	1:6,531	1,136
Isle of Man	3	1:18,090	1,402
Jersey	2	1:25,941	3,069

Place	Incidence	Frequency	Rank in Area
United States	11,572	1:4,340	535

The alternate forms: Bacoń (4), Bacõn (1) & Bacón (1) are calculated separately.

Bacon (320) may also be a first name.

Bacon Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? ^{meaning and history}

John le Bacon. T. Cecilia Bacun, Norfolk, 1373. Hundred Rolls.

Wymer Bacon, Surreyf., ibid.

Simon Bacon, Oxfordshire, ibid.

Walterus Bacun, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

1546. Humphrey Luce and Ann Bacon: Marriage Lic. (London).

1576. Matthias Bacon, London: Register of the University of Oxford.

— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

(Anglo-French-Teut.) 1 metonymic for Bacon- Dealer.

2 a nickname for a Swineherd or a Peasant. [Middle English baco(u)n, Old French bacon; O.H.Ger. bahho, ham, bacon] John le Bacon.—Fine-Rolls.

Ah! . . . bacon-fed knaves!. . . . On, bacons, on!—Shak., I. Hen. IV., ii. 2.

— Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

(English) A swineherd or peasant, from the nickname, Bacon; a bacon or lard dealer; dweller at the sign of the pig, at a time when bacon meant the live pig.

— Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

A seigniory in Normandy.

— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

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 (England), there is a beech—tree 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.

— An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names (1857) by William Arthur

In H.R. this name is found Bachun, Bacun, and Bacon, and is said to be derived from Bacon, a seigniory in Normandy. Lower says in some instances Bacon may be a corruption of Beacon, and that, from their connection with Bayeux, the Bacons were sometimes Latinised De Bajocis. I consider the name a French diminutive of Bach, from Gaelic bach, a brook, rivulet. Hence Bacot, another diminutive. Bacon has been corrupted to Buggin.

— Ludus Patronymicus (1868) by Richard Stephen Charnock

. The first member of this family settled in the Isle of Man in 1724.

— Manx Names (1890) by Arthur William Moore

This Norman family, of which the famous Roger Bacon and Francis Bacon, Viscount of St. Albans, the great philosophers, were members, derived its name from that of an ancestor. We find that name Bacon or Bacco 11th cent. in Maine, but this family was Northman. Anchetil Bacon before the Conquest made grants at his lordship of Molay to St. Barbe en Auge (Des Bois); William B., Lord of Molay, 1082, founded Holy Trinity, Caen: Richard B. occurs later; and 1154 Roger Bacon (who is mentioned 1154 as of Vieux Molay) held estates in Wilts (Rot. Pip.). In 1165 Robert, William, and Alexander B. held four knights’ fees of ancient enfeoffment in Essex from the Barony of Montfichet (Liber Niger). The further descent of the English family is well known; of it are the Baronets Bacon.

— The Norman People (1874)

From the Old Norse, Bekan; in the Domesday Book, Baco; a personal name.

— British Family Names: Their Origin and Meaning (1903) by Henry Barber

Bacon is a very ancient surname in this county. Knightly families of Bacon or Bacune held manors in the 13th and 14th centuries in the parishes of Dengie and Mountnessing, manors which seem to have taken in each case the name of Bacon from their early lords (M.). Bacon was the name of the mayor of Colchester in 1657 and 1695 (C.). Probably the original Bacons of Essex branched off long ago from the great Suffolk family of Bachun, Bacun, or Bacon, itself descended from a Norman stock in the 11th century (L.). In the 13th century, Bacun was a common name in Suffolk and Oxfordshire, and less so in Norfolk and Gloucestershire (H. R.). Bacon is now also established in Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Derbyshire.

— Homes of Family Names in Great Britain (1890) by Henry Brougham Guppy

The old Leicestershire family of Bacon of Hinckley went back to the time of Elizabeth (N.).

— Homes of Family Names in Great Britain (1890) by Henry Brougham Guppy

User-submitted Reference

Bacca surname based on bibliographic texts:.

Origin: english, french and italy (from norman origin).

Bacca is an anglo-norman surname from Romanesque latin (may be late latin) and old french. The surname Bacca was in use in England after the norman conquest). This surname is one of the first surnames that appeared in the early middle English, this is the main reason why it is considered an authentic surname from Middle English. The surname Bacca can be pronounced (baec) that is a form from norman language (old french). The Bacca surname is related to the normans surnames: Bacc, Bacce, Baccant, Baccard, Baccand, Bacchae, Baccett, Baccell, Baccae, Bacall, Baccall, Bacon, Baccon, Baccaert, Baccart, Beccon, Beacon and Baccas.

Bibliography: Books.

Beaumont/Meulan: Crouch, David. The Beaumont Twins: The Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Fourth Series, 1. Cambridge: Cup, 1986.

Houth, Émile. 'Géographie des fiefs des comtes de Meulan.' Bulletin philologique et historique (jusqu'à 1610) du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (1966).

King, Edmund. 'Waleran, Count of Meulan, Earl of Worcester.' Tradition and Change: Essays in Honour of Marjorie Chibnall on Her Seventieth Birthday. Editors Diane Greenway, Christopher Holdsworth and Jane Sayers. Cambridge: Cup, 1985.

White, Geoffrey H. 'The Career of Waleran, Count of Meulan and Earl of Worcester (1104-66).' Trhs 4th Series, no. 17 (1934).

Bellême: Boussard, Jacques. 'La seigneurie de Bellême aux Xe et XIe siècles.' In Mélanges d'histoire du Moyen Age Louis Halphen, edited by Charles-Edmond Perrin. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1951.

Louise, Gérard. La Seigneurie de Bellême, Xe-XIIe siècles: Dévolution des pouvoirs territoriaux et construction d'une seigneurie de frontière aux confins de la Normandie et du Maine à la charnière de l'an Mil, Le Pays Bas-Normand. Rouen: Le Pays Bas-Normand, 1990.

Musset Lucien. 'Administration et justice dans une grande baronnie normande au XIe siècle: Les terres des Bellême sous Roger Ii et Robert.' Apdn. Cahier des An, 17. Caen: An, 1985.

Thompson, Kathleen. 'Family and Influence to the South of Normandy in the Eleventh Century: the Lordship of Bellême.' Jmh 11 (1985).

Thompson, Kathleen. 'Robert of Bellême Reconsidered.' Ans (1990).

Thompson, Kathleen. 'William Talvas, Count of Ponthieu, and the Politics of the Anglo-Norman Realm.' England and Normandy in the Middle Ages. Editors David Bates and Anne Curry. London: Hambledon Press, 1994.

White, Geoffrey H. 'The First House of Bellême.' Trhs 4th Series, no. 22 (1940).

White, Geoffrey H. 'The Lords of Bellême and Alençon.' Notes and Queries (1927) .

Bessin (viscounts): Bouvris, Jean-Michel. 'Les fiefs d'une famille vicomtale à l'époque ducale: Les vicomtes du Bessin (XIe-XIIe siècles).' Memoire de Maîtrise, Université de Caen, 1973.

Bohun: Le Melletier, Jean. Les seigneurs de Bohon, illustre famille anglo-normande originaire du Cotentin. Coutances: Arnaud-Bellée, 1978.

Broc: Bouvris, Jean-Michel. 'Une famille de vassaux des vicomtes de Bayeux au XIe siècle: Les Broc.' Revue du Département de la Manche 19, no. 73 (1977).

Dastin: Bouvris, Jean-Michel. 'Pour un étude prosopographique des familles nobles d'importance moyenne en Normandie au XIe siècle: L'exemple du lignage des Dastin.' Revue de l'Avranchin 41 (1984).

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Bacc surname based on bibliographic texts:.

Origin: english, french and italy (from norman origin).

Bacc (also Bacca) is an anglo-norman surname from Romanesque latin (may be late latin) and old french. The surname Bacc was in use in England after the norman conquest). This surname is one of the first surnames that appeared in the early middle English, this is the main reason why it is considered an authentic surname from Middle English. The Bacc surname is related to the normans surnames: Bacca, Bacce, Baccant, Baccard, Baccand, Bacchae, Baccett, Baccell, Baccae, Bacall, Baccall, Bacon, Baccon, Baccaert, Baccart, Beccon, Beacon and Baccas.