Banks

What Banks means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Banks yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #310 vs #1,406 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Banks?

US: Rising: up from #1538 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 1,099 boys got the name (#310 that year). First in the US records in 1883.

How common

• About 1 in 1,554 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 14,312 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MT (2.66 per 1,000 boys), UT (2.54 per 1,000 boys), SD (2.34 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Banks is #310 in the US and #1406 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 92.5% of US babies named Banks were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Banx55 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Banks

Boys

• Mateo#8Same root as Matthew, meaning “gift of the Lord”^*
• Enzo#72“home + ruler”^*
• Nash#255Editor’s note Up from #345 in 2015 to #255 in 2025 in the US
• Eithan#97Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,599 in 2015, #97 in 2025
• Matteo#146Italian, from Latin Matthaeus, meaning “gift of the Lord”^*
• Amir#105“commander, prince”^*

For a sister

• Noa#226Hawaiian, meaning “commoner, free man”^*
• Arya#158“noble, respectable”^*
• Ailani#168Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,199 in 2015, #168 in 2025
• Alani#161Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #529 in 2015, #161 in 2025
• Eliza#115Editor’s note Up from #175 in 2015 to #115 in 2025 in the US
• Leilani#60Hawaiian, meaning “a lei; a child + heavenly, royal”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Banks’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.