Banco
org · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: bank, bench (A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Banco is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 122 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)bank (financial institution)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Banco is read
(measured from records)Banco is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese48%
bank, bench
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Spanish41%
bank (financial institution)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Guarani8.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Banco in Guarani.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Banco counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 204 | Banco | 122 |
| AR Argentina | — | 362 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 109 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 42 | — | 10 |
| FR France | — | 37 | — | — |
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 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Banco is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Being or relating to a type of court involving a bench of judges, often an appeals court.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, vocative singular of bancă
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, bench
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, desk
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)- Alma del Bancob. 1862DEGerman painter (1862-1943)
- Marco Bancob. 1970CACanadian guitarist
- Nelly Bancob. 1986FRFrench athletics competitor
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Banco come from?
- bank (financial institution) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Banco mean?
- In Portuguese, bank, bench
- In which country does Banco have the most bearers?
- Banco is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled banco.
What do you want to know about Banco?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bancoThe 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, “Banco” — ranked 90652nd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.