# Banks (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/banks/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

An English toponymic surname for someone who lives near a hill or bank of land.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 105,833 |
| US rank (2010) | 292 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 2,917 people |
| Change since 2000 | +6.6% (99,294 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Bangs |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Banks in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 39% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 55% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 3.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Banks in the United States, the United Kingdom, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Australia.

## People named Banks

- Tyra Banks, American television personality, producer, and former model
- Elizabeth Banks, American actress and director (born 1974)
- Jonathan Banks, American actor
- Azealia Banks, American rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman (born 1991)
- Lloyd Banks, American rapper
- Banks, American singer (born 1988)
- Nathaniel P. Banks, American politician of Massachusetts and general of the Union Army (1816-1894)
- Ernie Banks, American baseball player and coach
- Jim Banks, American politician (born 1979)
- Marcus Banks, American basketball player (born 1981)
- Russell Banks, American writer (1940–2023)
- Jimmy Banks, American soccer player (1964-2019)

and 23 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Banegas, Bangs, Baines, Bang, Bains, Baynes, Banas, Bank, Banos, Banes, Beans, Bunch.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.