Benton Family History
Benton Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Benton Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Benton families
 239 - 476  80 - 238 |
 1 - 79  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Benton families
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371 - 739 124 - 370 |
1 - 123 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Benton families
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21 - 40 8 - 20 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Benton Family Origin
Benton Immigration Information
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Benton Family Occupations
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