The benton Surname
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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