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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from the personal name Bienvenu (feminine Bienvenue) meaning ‘welcome’, an omen name given to a much wanted child.
  • A Bienvenu from La Rochelle, with the secondary surname Delisle, is documented in Detroit in 1701.

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