Banker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: dweller by a bank; first attested Albrice le Baunker 1245 FFC
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/baŋka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Banker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 79K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 103K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 63K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 321 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)
4,201 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
dweller by a bank; first attested Albrice le Baunker 1245 FFC
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Banker counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,201 | 1 in 79K | 4.2K | Banker | 321 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 103K | listed | Banker | 32 |
| EG Egypt | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 266K | — | Banker | 7 |
| CA Canada | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Banker | 25 |
| IT Italy | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 219K | — | Banker | 6 |
| BE Belgium | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Banker | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Banker | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Banker | 2 |
4,201 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the reaney-english-surnames-1991 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Banker is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Albrice le Baunker 1245 FFC; Thomas Bankar 1358 Putnam (Nth). ‘Dweller by a bank.’
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Akan, oap em, a kind of bead, s. ahen^. o-bankii, a kind of food, prepared of ground maize, com- monly eaten when yam is scarce, ab^nkiia, s. ^kiia
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In German, banker (one who works in the banking industry)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, a beater (implement used for beating)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Howard James Bankerb. 1866USAmerican mycologist (1866-1940)
- George A. Bankerb. 1874USAmerican bicycle racer (1874-1917)
- Grace Bankerb. 1892USUS Signal Corps personnel
- Oscar H. Bankerb. 1895USAmerican inventor
- Bill Bankerb. 1907USAmerican football player (1907-1985)
- Mark Bankerb. 1956USAmerican football coach
- Ted Bankerb. 1961USAmerican football player
- Ashok Bankerb. 1964INIndian writer
- Deepak BankerINIndian cricketer
- Carol BankerAmerican television director
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.2K | #7,876 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.7K | #8,193 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.6K | #8,836 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Banker mean, and where does it come from?
- dweller by a bank; first attested Albrice le Baunker 1245 FFC Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Banker?
- A machine transcription gives /baŋka/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Banker have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Banker, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled banker.
- How common is the name Banker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,201 people named Banker in 2010, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Banker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.