male NAME · CURRENTLY #310

Banks

banks

“one who lives by a bank or hillside”

An English surname name derived from a geographic term for a bank, slope, or riverside.

surname-baseddistinctivemodern
SSA POPULARITY HISTORY

How Banks has traveled through time

71905 91915 221920 131925 101930 71935 81940 81955 51960 51970 91990 162000 262005 492010 1062015 3722020 1,1882025
LATEST YEAR20251,188 births
PEAK RANK#310in 2025
CURRENT USAGE7.5% F92.5% M

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration. SSA excludes names with fewer than five occurrences in a geographic area.

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