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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone living by a bink, a northern dialect term for a flat raised bank of earth or a shelf of flat stone suitable for sitting on. The word is a northern form of modern English bench.
  • Variant of Polish Binek, itself a variant of Bieniek.

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