Bankhead Family History
Bankhead Name Meaning
Scottish and northern Irish: topographic name for someone who lived
at the top or end of a bank or hill (see Banks 1) or
habitational name from a place with this origin. There are several
minor places in Scotland so called, but the most likely source of the
surname is one on the border between the parishes of Kilmarnock and
Dreghorn in Ayrshire.
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Name Distribution of Bankhead Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Bankhead families
 8 - 13  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bankhead families
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7 - 12 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Bankhead Family Origin
Bankhead Emigration Information (US)
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Bankhead Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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