Last name: BENN
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Last name frequency
BENN : This last name is indexed 33,881 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BENN : 1: English: from the Middle English personal name Ben(ne) which is in part a short form of Benet (see Benedict). This surname is also common among African Americans; as such it may possibly also be a variant of Ben 1.2: North German: from a short form of the personal name Bernhard.
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(74) - Cemeteries
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