The banks Surname

banks Name Meaning and History

English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived on the slope of a hillside or by a riverbank, from northern Middle English banke (from Old Danish banke). The final -s may occasionally represent a plural form, but it is most commonly an arbitrary addition made after the main period of surname formation, perhaps under the influence of patronymic forms with a possessive -s.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bruacháin ‘descendant of Bruachán’, a byname for a large-bellied person. The English form was chosen because of a mistaken association of the Gaelic name with bruach ‘bank’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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banks Family Facts

Distribution of banks Families in the US in 1920

Number of banks families

498-993

167-497

1-166

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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charlie banks	TTURTLE59	0
Banks Family of Isle of Wight County, Va.	ldstokkell	0
African American Banks from Georgia (Atlanta)	latingash	0
Isabella, James, Joseph & Betty Banks from Bedford & Pulaski Counties, VA	LittleGrand	0
Looking for Fredricka Banks B. March 1873 in NY	newyorkholtz	0
BANKS Leona R and Hobert	t42Moore	0
Ben Banks	chall64	0
LEACH V Trene BANKS and John G	t42Moore	0
BANKS Virginia 1907 1982	t42swisher_dencotx	0
BANKS Raymond 1897 1971	t42swisher_dencotx	0

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