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Question:for example ben-laden or w/e

are there other names that start with ben- something

what origin are they from?? like what country??


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are there other names that start with ben- something

what origin are they from?? like what country??

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name as a first and last name.
Ben
English: short form of Benjamin, or less commonly of Benedict or Bennett. Pet forms: Benny, Bennie.
A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN
Last Name
Ben
Muslim: abstracted as a surname from Arabic ben ‘son of’, as in Bensoussan. This is quite commonly used as a surname among Muslims living in France.
Italian (also Del Ben): from a dialect form of bene ‘well’. This form, without the preposition, is found only in Belluno province, in particular in Taibon Agordino.
Indian (Gujarat): from Gujarati ben ‘sister’, from Sanskrit bhagini, a title often attached to their given name by Gujarati women. It is not a true family name, but is sometimes used as a last name by women who do not have a surname.
Hope this helps.

It is of Hebrew origin. I believe it means "son of"... so Ben-Hur, for example, would mean "son of Hur"
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It means "son of..."

Ben ______________ or bin ___________ are "patronymic" forms. In Hebrew, "ben" means "son of," so a name like Joshua ben David would just have meant "Joshua, the son of David." "Bin" is the Arabic equivalent, much as "Schmidt" is the German equivalent of "Smith." Jews today still use their Hebrew names for ritualistic purposes, such as being called to read the Torah before the congregation. The female equivalent in Hebrew is "bat". It's also where the rite-of-passage terms "bar mitzvah" or "bat mitzvah" come from; a "mitzvah" is a commandment, so "bar mitzvah" and "bat mitzvah" mean son or daughter of the commandments, respectively. If you include both mother and father's names, you include the conjunction v' (and).