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banker Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name from northern Middle English bank(e) ‘hillside slope’, ‘riverbank’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant (see Banks).
  2. Scottish: habitational name from Bankier in Stirlingshire.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name from Polish bankier ‘banker’.
  4. German (Bänker): occupational name from an agent derivative of Middle Low German banc ‘bench’, ‘counter’ (see Bank).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The banker name in History

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Distribution of banker Families in the US in 1920
Number of banker families
 114-225
 39-113		 1-38
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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