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Benjamin

in Massachusetts

There are 975 people with the last name "Benjamin" in Massachusetts.

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Ranking in Massachusetts

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Benjamin 712
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  1. is 708th most common Plante
  2. is 709th most common Shah
  3. is 710th most common Keller
  4. is 711th most common Lavallee
  5. is 712th most common Benjamin
  6. is 713th most common Haynes
  7. is 714th most common Gross
  8. is 715th most common Clancy
  9. is 716th most common Cleary

Most Common First Names for Benjamin

John, Michael, Robert, Mary, Paul, James, Marie, William, David, Richard

Meaning & History

Jewish, English, French, and Hungarian (Benjámin): from the Hebrew male personal name Binyamin ‘Son of the South’. In the Book of Genesis, it is treated as meaning ‘Son of the Right Hand’. The two senses are connected, since in Hebrew the south is thought of as the righthand side of a person who is facing east. Benjamin was the youngest and favorite son of Jacob and supposed progenitor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel (Genesis 35:16– 18; 42:4). It is rare as an English and French surname; the personal name was not common among Gentiles in the Middle Ages, but its use was sanctioned by virtue of having been borne by a saint martyred in Persia in about ad 424. In some cases in medieval Europe it was also applied as a byname or nickname to the youngest (and beloved) son of a large family; this is the sense of modern French benjamin.

FOREBEARS John Benjamin (1598–1645) came from England to Watertown, MA, in 1632.A man called Benjamin, of unknown origin, was recorded in Repentigny, Quebec, in 1704, with the secondary surname Saint-Aubin.

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