Bana Family History
Bana Name Meaning
Italian: from the feminine form of Bano . Hungarian: from a pet form of the old personal name Bán (see Ban ). Czech (Báňa): nickname from báň ‘arch’ figuratively ‘prison’. Slovak (Baňa Báňa): topographic name or metonymic occupational name from báň ‘clearing in woodland’ or baňa ‘mine’ also ‘potter's oven’. Indian (Rajasthan Uttar Pradesh): Jat name apparently derived from the Hindi and Sanskrit word bana ‘arrow’. This was an epithet applied to the mythical hero Banasur who in Hindu belief was an excellent archer a thousand-armed devotee of Shiva and one of the hundred sons of the powerful monkey king Bali. African (mainly Cameroon Niger and Nigeria): unexplained.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022