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bensen Name Meaning and History

  1. German: habitational name from any of several places in northern Germany named Bensen.
  2. Altered form of Bengtsson, Bendtsen and the like, patronymics from Bengt, Bendt, Scandinavian forms of Benedict.

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

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Distribution of bensen Families in the US in 1920
Number of bensen families
 35-67
 12-34		 1-11
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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benson families in Rutherford co. Tenn CherylReed61 0
Seeking my family bailysic 1
Gertrude & Rose Bensen (Benson) PatriciaCampbell48 0
Benjamin Augustus Bensen camoreno 1
Clara Bensen(on) Causer Patbobt 0
Wilhelmina Bensen b Feb. 1865 WI marta_kaley 0
?Bernt Bensen family JHarris6000 0
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Nellie Faye Bensen(Benson(?) littledmg66 0
My Grandmother Vera Agnes Bensen 0
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