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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places named in Old English from bēan ‘beans’ (collective singular) + feld ‘field’, ‘open land’, as for example Benville in Dorset.
  • Irish : variant of the Norman family name Banville (see Bonfield), associated primarily with county Wexford.

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