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Benjamin

in New Hampshire

There are 168 people with the last name "Benjamin" in New Hampshire.

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Ranking in New Hampshire

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Benjamin 1,017
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  1. is 1,013th most common Mackey
  2. is 1,014th most common Noonan
  3. is 1,015th most common Rioux
  4. is 1,016th most common Ash
  5. is 1,017th most common Benjamin
  6. is 1,018th most common David
  7. is 1,019th most common Fleury
  8. is 1,020th most common Logan
  9. is 1,021st most common Mcfarland

Most Common First Names for Benjamin

Robert, James, Kim, David, Jennifer, Joseph, Larry, Lloyd, Richard, Sandra

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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