Bent Family History

English: habitational name from any of numerous farms and other minor places called with Middle English bent ‘coarse grass’ (Old English beonet ‘bent grass coarse grass’) with reference to a tract of land growing with it.

English: nickname from Middle English bent ‘bent curved’ (of the back or legs) or ‘striped ribboned’ (of clothing).

East Frisian and North German: from a Frisian-Low German short form of the personal name Bernhart (see Bernhard).

German: habitational name from Bent in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.