Benton Family History
- Benton Name Meaning
- English: habitational name from a pair of villages in Northumbria named with Old English bean ‘beans’ (a collective singular) or beonet ‘bent grass’ + tun ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The name is now most frequent in the West Midlands, however, so it may be that a place of the same name in that area should be sought as its origin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
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Number of Benton families
 371 - 739  124 - 370 |
 1 - 123  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Benton families
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21 - 40 8 - 20 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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