Bender

38,205 people in the United States were counted with the surname Bender in the 2020 census, making it the 900th most common in the country. That is about one person in 7,824.

By the numbers

People: 38,205
Rank: 900th
How common: 1 in 7,824
Per 100,000: 12.8

Where the name comes from

From bender; the name was given to someone who bent things.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bender described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 86.1%
Black, not Hispanic 6.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Bender

Lars Bender (born 1989)German footballer
Sven Bender (born 1989)German footballer
Jack Bender (born 1949)American film and television director
Lawrence Bender (born 1957)American film producer
Dragan Bender (born 1997)Croatian basketball player
Landry Bender (born 2000)American actress
Jakob Bender (1910–1981)German footballer
Jonathan Bender (born 1981)American basketball player

People named Bender with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bender

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.