Bennington Family History
Bennington Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places called
Benington, in Hertfordshire and Lincolnshire, or from Long Bennington
in Lincolnshire. The first is recorded in Domesday Book as
Benintone ‘farmstead or settlement (Old English tun)
by the Beane river’; both Lincolnshire names are derived from the Old
English personal name Beonna + -ing-, a connective
particle denoting association, + tun.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Bennington Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bennington families
 44 - 85  15 - 43 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bennington families
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132 - 262 45 - 131 |
1 - 44 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bennington families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bennington Family Origin
Bennington Immigration Information
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Bennington Family Occupations
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