Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : patronymic from the Yiddish male
personal name Benye (a pet form of Beniamin; see
Bien, Benjamin) + the Yiddish possessive and patronymic
suffix -s.
Latvian : from a shortened form of the
personal name Benedikts (see Benedict).
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