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Banks Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Banks Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Banks families
 498 - 993  167 - 497 |
 1 - 166  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Banks families
|
1,748 - 3,494 583 - 1,747 |
1 - 582 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Banks families
|
183 - 363 62 - 182 |
1 - 61 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Banks Family Occupations
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