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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) and German : occupational name for a beekeeper, a variant of Bien, with the addition of the -er agent suffix.
  • German : possibly a habitational name from a place name of Slavic origin, such as Bienau in eastern Germany.

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