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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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.

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