Bender Family History
- Bender Name Meaning
- German: occupational name for a cooper, a short form of Fassbender. English: from an agent derivative of Old English bendan ‘to bend (the bow)’, hence probably a metonymic occupational name for an archer. Compare Benbow. Hungarian: from bender ‘curl’, hence a nickname for someone with curly hair.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,280,656 Historical Documents with Bender on Ancestry
- 615,223 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 191,301 Census and Voter Lists
- 51,495 Military Records
- 27,892 Immigration Records
- 394,745 Member Trees
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Number of Bender families
 79 - 155  27 - 78 |
 1 - 26  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bender families
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23 - 44 8 - 22 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bender census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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