Given name & surname
Bench
“hill”
Bench is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As an English surname, Bench goes back to a word meaning “hill.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Bench has more than one origin: as an English surname, it goes back to a word meaning “hill”; as a German surname, it comes from Czech Beneš.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Bench as a surname developed from Beneš.
Bench’s family of names
In English usage, Bench as a surname developed from the Czech form Beneš. In English usage, Bench as a surname has a related form in BENSCH.
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Nicknames & forms 1
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