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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant of Banfield or Bonfield.
  • English : topographic name from Middle English bent ‘bent-grass’ + feld ‘open country’ or ‘land converted to arable use’, or a habitational name from a place named with these elements (Old English beonet + feld), such as Binfield in Berkshire.

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