Family name origins & meanings
- Altered spelling of French Binet, a short form of Robinet, a pet form of Robert. The spelling reflects the French Canadian custom of pronouncing the final -t, which would be silent in metropolitan French.
- A bearer of the name Binet from the Poitou region of France appears in the records of Quebec city for 1667; another, from Picardy, was documented in Boucherville, Quebec, in 1670 with the secondary surname Lespérance.