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bender Name Meaning and History

  1. German: occupational name for a cooper, a short form of Fassbender.
  2. English: from an agent derivative of Old English bendan ‘to bend (the bow)’, hence probably a metonymic occupational name for an archer. Compare Benbow.
  3. Hungarian: from bender ‘curl’, hence a nickname for someone with curly hair.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bender Families in the US in 1920
Number of bender families
 573-1143
 192-572		 1-191
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Parents of John Bender Lori Helser 16
Winifred Bender gave child up for adoption 1963 rungeusa 0
Need info on Henry Bender in PA RWileman 3
Bender family KIm 52
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Bender's of Pa. Bill Bender 21
Jacob Bender, German from Russia Gene Kizer 6
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Bender's from New Jersey Lois Bender 1
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