Benning Family History
Benning Name Meaning
Dutch and German: habitational name from a farm so named which once belonged to a certain Benne and his kin. Benne is a short form of the personal name Bernhard . In North America this surname may also be an altered form of the Dutch cognate Bennink . Compare Bening . North German: patronymic from Benn . English: from an unrecorded Middle English (Old English) personal name Benning a pet form of Old English Beonna perhaps derived from beorn ‘warrior’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022