Find out how popular the last name Bendersky is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Bendersky.

Bendersky, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Bendersky surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Bendersky in America

Bendersky is the 83226th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Bendersky surname appeared 226 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Bendersky.

We can also compare 2010 data for Bendersky to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Bendersky

The surname Bendersky is of Eastern European origin, specifically from the regions of modern-day Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine. It is believed to have emerged in the late 17th or early 18th century as a variation of the German surname Bender, which itself derives from the occupational term "bender" or "cooper," referring to a maker of wooden casks or barrels.

The addition of the "-sky" suffix is a common Slavic patronymic, indicating that the name likely originated as a way to identify the son or descendant of a particular Bender or cooper. This practice of adding a suffix to a parent's given name or occupation was widespread in Eastern European naming traditions.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the Bendersky surname can be found in the Polish town of Krakow, where a merchant named Jakub Bendersky is mentioned in local records from the mid-18th century. Another early reference is the birth record of Szymon Bendersky in the village of Vysokaye, located in what is now Belarus, in the year 1782.

By the 19th century, the Bendersky name had spread across the Russian Empire, with notable individuals including the writer and journalist Yevgeniy Bendersky (1827-1891), who was born in the city of Vitebsk, and the mathematician and academic Aleksandr Bendersky (1854-1919), who taught at the prestigious St. Petersburg Imperial University.

Other prominent figures with the Bendersky surname include the Russian-born American violinist and composer Joseph Bendersky (1888-1972), who emigrated to the United States in the early 20th century and became a respected figure in the classical music scene. Additionally, there was the Polish-born chemist and inventor Ignacy Bendersky (1898-1972), who played a significant role in the development of early synthetic rubber and held numerous patents in the field of polymer chemistry.

In the early 20th century, the name Bendersky was also found among Jewish families in Eastern Europe, with some individuals adopting it as a surname after being required to take on a permanent family name by the authorities of the Russian Empire or the Austro-Hungarian Empire. One notable example is the writer and Zionist leader Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858-1922), who was born Eliezer Yitzhak Perlman but later adopted the surname Bendersky before ultimately changing it to Ben-Yehuda.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Bendersky

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Bendersky.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Bendersky was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Bendersky has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Bendersky was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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