as a Last Name
- 658
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Bengel
Meaning & Origins
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): 1. habitational name from a place so named, for example in Bavaria and the Mosel area. 2. from Middle High German bengel ‘club’, ‘cudgel’ or in a transferred sense ‘hooligan’, ‘lout’, hence a nickname for a boorish man.
| 32,477th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 658
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Michigan
- has the most people named Bengel per capita
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