# Banks (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/banks/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,970 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 6,459 / 511 (7% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 100, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 7 | 12,691 |
| 2019 | 22 | 5,642 |
| 2020 | 50 | 3,149 |
| 2021 | 82 | 2,253 |
| 2022 | 85 | 2,211 |
| 2023 | 79 | 2,319 |
| 2024 | 97 | 2,013 |
| 2025 | 89 | 2,105 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 55 | 2,322 |
| 2012 | 71 | 1,983 |
| 2013 | 56 | 2,282 |
| 2014 | 92 | 1,671 |
| 2015 | 106 | 1,539 |
| 2016 | 126 | 1,390 |
| 2017 | 113 | 1,488 |
| 2018 | 156 | 1,203 |
| 2019 | 241 | 913 |
| 2020 | 322 | 753 |
| 2021 | 582 | 504 |
| 2022 | 787 | 408 |
| 2023 | 941 | 348 |
| 2024 | 902 | 366 |
| 2025 | 1,099 | 310 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | 4,843 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,927 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | 3,411 |
| 2020 | 7 | 2,682 |
| 2021 | 11 | 1,984 |
| 2022 | 15 | 1,609 |
| 2023 | 13 | 1,799 |
| 2024 | 23 | 1,199 |
| 2025 | 19 | 1,406 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.