Last name origins & meanings:
- English: patronymic from the medieval personal name
Benne, a pet form of Benedict (see
Benn).
- English: habitational name from a place in
Oxfordshire named Benson, from Old English Benesingtūn
‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with
Benesa’, a personal name of obscure origin, perhaps a
derivative of Bana meaning ‘slayer’.
- Jewish
(Ashkenazic): patronymic composed of a pet form of the personal name
Beniamin (see Bien, Benjamin) + German
Sohn ‘son’.
- Scandinavian: altered form of such names
as Bengtsson, Bendtsen, patronymics from Bengt,
Bendt, etc., Scandinavian forms of Benedict.
Famous people with this last name:
Robby Benson
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