Bench

See also: bench

English

Etymology 1

From Bench [Term?] (bentʂnon).

Proper noun

Bench (uncountable)

1. A language spoken in Ethiopia
2. The people who speak the Bench language

Etymology 2

• As an English surname, related to bank (“hill”) and bench
• As a German surname, spelling variant of Bensch, Benesch, itself Germanized from Czech Beneš.

Proper noun

Bench (plural Benches)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bench is the 10565^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3033 individuals. Bench is most common among White (90.8%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bench”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135.