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benning Name Meaning and History

North German: patronymic from a short form of the personal name Bernhard or its variant Benno.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The benning name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the benning family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of benning Families in the US in 1920
Number of benning families
 32-61
 11-31		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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