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The bengel Surname

bengel Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from a place so named, for example in Bavaria and the Mosel area.
  2. from Middle High German bengel ‘club’, ‘cudgel’ or in a transferred sense ‘hooligan’, ‘lout’, hence a nickname for a boorish man.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The bengel name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the bengel family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of bengel Families in the US in 1920
Number of bengel families
 13-24
 5-12		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Seeking Jacob BENGEL, 208th PVI JoeNihen 6
Conrad Bengel For Germany r2mites1 0
George Bengel born 1853 in Germany Flora Greene 1
Johann Henrich Bengel WalterBurgner30 0
Bengal/Bengel/Arris in Pennsylvania Patsy Taylor 0
Bengel GATATUM 1
Grandfather luckeycat 2
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