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.