Banić

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Banić is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Croatia.

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Banić counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Banić is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
HR Croatia—1.7K—
US United States—216—
SI Slovenia—213—
CH Switzerland—32—
CZ Czechia—11—

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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Banić is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Banic, Banič

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Peru, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Banic, Banič

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Banic, Banič

  • Russian name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Banic

  • Serbian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia

    Also written Банић

9 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18501900195020002050Štefan Banič, b. 1870Ćiril Banić, b. 1890Stanko Banič, b. 1913Stanko Banić, b. 1917Janez Banič, b. 1928Ivo Banič, b. 1932Jože Banič, b. 1945Rea Banić, b. 2001

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)

Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Banić
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211.7K#243
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)20211.6K—

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

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Banić is most frequently recorded in Croatia.

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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, “Banić”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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