English : habitational name from any of various places named in
Old English from bēan ‘beans’ (collective singular) +
feld ‘field’, ‘open land’, as for example Benville in Dorset.
Irish : variant of the Norman family name Banville
(see Bonfield), associated primarily with county Wexford.
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