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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • South German variant of Benk : variant of Benk: habitational name from any of various places so named in Bavaria.
  • South German variant of Benk : from a pet form of the baptismal name Benignus.
  • South German variant of Benk : diminutive of Sorbian pien ‘tree trunk’, ‘stump’, probably a nickname for a stocky person.
  • South German variant of Benk : from an Old Prussian personal name.

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