Bench

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Bench [Term?] (bentʂnon). ==== Proper noun ==== Bench (uncountable) A language spoken in Ethiopia 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) A surname. ===== Statistics ===== According to the 2010 United States Census, Bench is the 10565th 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: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135.