Bent

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Bent (plural Bents)

1. A surname

• Bendt

Medieval contraction of Late Latin Benedictus. Cognate with Swedish Bengt.

Bent

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict

• (feminine forms) Bente
• (surnames) Bentsen

• Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 43 180 males with the given name Bent have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

Attested as bent in 1615. Derived from bent (“moor grass, Molinia sp.”).

• Hyphenation: Bent

Bent n

1. A hamlet in Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

• van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), “bent”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

From Danish Bent, c. 1400.

Bent

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Benedict