Bently Family Crest and Last Name Background

Some records give Bentley; others give Bently. Both point to the same English family name. In origin, the name means “Bent-grass clearing”.

• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.
• The same family of names includes Bentlee and Bentleigh.
• Bently drops the “e” of Bentley, a simplification that clerks often made.
• Bently ranked 35,147 in the 2010 US Census, with 641 people answering to the name. That puts it inside the top 50,000 US surnames.

Heraldry and the Bently name

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