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bence Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from a medieval personal name, Bence, Benz, derived from Old German Benzo.
  2. Possibly also an Americanized spelling of German Bentz or Benz.
  3. French: from Benzi, an Italian form of the Germanic personal name Bandizo.
  4. Hungarian (also found in Slovenia): from a short form of the old ecclesiastical name Bencenc, from Latin Vincentius. See also Vince. From the 16th century onward, Bence was confused with Bencse, a pet form of Benedek (see Benedict), and various derivatives of the personal name Benjámin (see Benjamin).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bence Families in the US in 1920
Number of bence families
 19-36
 7-18		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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researching bence/manner clan ind. co. pa. Mark Heidenreich 10
JAMES BENCE 1765 England L.S.Pack 9
Patrick Henry Bence mjadmin 0
Where are the Bences in wiltshire? debbiebean58 3
Needing Bence Family Info Toni Bence 4
Bence family, Coles Co. Il JoanHyde653 1
Francis & Barbary in Croghan, Lewis, NY 1800-1900 RJ Samp 0
Why was a Ren(t)fro child named after a Bence? lrtyndall 0
2nd Lt John W. (Jack) Bence, USAAF WolfWillowPress 0
Bence Stacy Slate Howard 0
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