Hi Patty, I have an ancestor with the name Benyak on most records but I have found it Benjak on two records and on one record it was spelled Benxiak with the strange x. I guess it was just the way the priest wrote it in the record the way he heard it. Try substituting a y or a j for the xi which is probably the way the name is written in most documents. The y and j have the same i sound in Croatian. In other words the name is probably Samarya or Samarja which sound the same. Bill Kane