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benton Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from a pair of villages in Northumbria named with Old English bean ‘beans’ (a collective singular) or beonet ‘bent grass’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The name is now most frequent in the West Midlands, however, so it may be that a place of the same name in that area should be sought as its origin.

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

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

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Distribution of benton Families in the US in 1920
Number of benton families
 239-476
 80-238		 1-79
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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