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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (western Ashkenazic) : habitational name from Bingen in the Rhineland, Germany.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead so named with Old Norse bingr ‘cow stall’, ‘field’, ‘small farm’.

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