English: from the Middle English personal name Benne,
which is in part a short form of Benedict and in part a form of
the Old Norse personal name Bjorn meaning ‘bear cub’,
‘warrior’.North German: from a short form of the personal name
Bernhard.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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