as a Last Name
- 35,340
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Benton
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from a pair of villages in Northumbria named with Old English bēan ‘beans’ (a collective singular) or beonet ‘bent grass’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. The name is now most frequent in the West Midlands, however, so it may be that a place of the same name in that area should be sought as its origin.
| 838th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 35,340
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Benton per capita
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