Frequency: (183)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: habitational name from a place in Shropshire named Benthall, from Old English beonet ‘bent grass’ + halh ‘nook’, ‘recess’.
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