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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Bine (from Yiddish bin ‘bee’, used as a translation of the Hebrew female personal name Devora ‘Deborah’, the literal meaning of which is ‘bee’). Bine is often folk-etymologized as being from the Hebrew noun bina ‘understanding’.

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