Bannis
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/baɲɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bannis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Dominica than in any other country. In U.S. Virgin Islands it is the 49th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M(measured from records)
- DMDominica1 in 355
- VIU.S. Virgin Islands≈1 in 2.6K
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.
- Dominica (measured from records)
- Sources
- 124 (measured from records)
- 1 in 355 (inferred from the name graph)
209 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bannis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DM Dominica | — | 209 | 1 in 355 | 209 | — | 5 |
| US United States | — | 147 | 1 in 2.3M | 180 | Bannis | 124 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 981K | — | Bannis | 23 |
| FR France | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | 11 | — | — |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Bannis | 10 |
| VI U.S. Virgin Islands | #49 | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Bannis | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 23 | 1 in 751K | 23 | Bannis | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 8 | 1 in 734K | 8 | — | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 7 | 1 in 7.7K | 7 | — | 4 |
209 people counted by Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025, 2025. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Bannis is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, dative/ablative plural of bannus
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)
- Christian Bannisb. 1992DKDanish association football player (1992-)
- Naoufal Bannisb. 2002NLDutch association football player
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 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 209 | #67 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 180 | #105,671 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 147 | #118,185 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 23 | #47,042 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 10 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #45,304 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 7 | #175 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 3 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Bannis?
- A machine transcription gives /baɲɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bannis have the most bearers?
- In Dominica, the national register counted about 209 people named Bannis, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bannis most common?
- Bannis is densest in Dominica, where the national register counts about 1 in 355 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bannis?
- In Dominica, the national register counted 209 people named Bannis in 2025, about 1 in 355 residents.
- How common is Bannis compared with other names?
- In U.S. Virgin Islands, Bannis is the 49th most common surname of 218 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bannisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Bannis” — the 49th most common surname in U.S. Virgin Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.