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benn Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from the Middle English personal name Benne, which is in part a short form of Benedict and in part a form of the Old Norse personal name Bjorn meaning ‘bear cub’, ‘warrior’.
  2. North German: from a short form of the personal name Bernhard.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of benn Families in the US in 1920
Number of benn families
 41-80
 14-40		 1-13
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 120 - Messages: 371
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Thomas Benn born Brighton 1818 JasonBenn27 0
Frank Benn Adam Benn 1
James Joseph Benn Jr. & James Joseph Benn III newtonmckinney 0
benn connections rjb1340 0
Henry Benn - Whitehaven - England tobytinribs1 5
Benns of Louisiana plrose212 3
Benn facebook Terry_Tomasi 3
Benn's in Ontario crbenn1 34
BENN, Henry, James, Revecca & George Pleasant Gasp. Centre Co. PA PaulRoth51 1
Benn in Maine debby9cat 3
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