How common is the surname Bench?

3,033 people in the United States had the surname Bench in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 101,795 Americans. It ranked 10,565th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bench?

In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Bench identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Bench getting more or less common?

More common. 2,943 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,033 in 2010, up 3.1%.

The surname Bench

A Czech surname, carried by 3,033 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bench is more common than 93.5% of them.

Origin

Czech origin

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

One of 96 Czech surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,033 people named Bench in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 101,795 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,943.

#10,565

rank among US surnames

3,033

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+3.1%

change since 2000 (was #10,097)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,560	Biggerstaff	3,035	101,728
#10,563	Nadler	3,034	101,762
#10,565	Mullikin	3,033	101,795
#10,572	Larocque	3,032	101,829

Who is named Bench

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

91% of people named Bench identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 91%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
Two or more races 2.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 2.1%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bench

Bench has the Soundex code B520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B520.

Other Czech surnames

All 96 Czech surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Bench come from?: * As an English surname, related to bank (“hill”) and bench * As a German surname, spelling variant of Bensch, Benesch, itself Germanized from Czech Beneš.
How common is the surname Bench?: 3,033 people in the United States had the surname Bench in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 101,795 Americans. It ranked 10,565th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bench?: In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Bench identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Bench getting more or less common?: More common. 2,943 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,033 in 2010, up 3.1%.