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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : patronymic from the Yiddish male personal name Benye (a pet form of Beniamin; see Bien, Benjamin) + the Yiddish possessive and patronymic suffix -s.
  • Latvian : from a shortened form of the personal name Benedikts (see Benedict).

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