Bank
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bank is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from mhd. banc 'bench, selling stand'; also from Bank as a place name.
- USUnited States1 in 140K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 9.4K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 24K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 277 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bänk in DE Germany.
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(measured from records)
from mhd. banc 'bench, selling stand'; also from Bank as a place name
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bank 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Bänk | 98 |
| US United States | 2,371 | 1 in 140K | 2.4K | Bank | 277 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Bank | 37 |
| DK Denmark | 625 | 1 in 9.4K | 625 | — | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 594 | 1 in 29K | 594 | Bank | 28 |
| SE Sweden | 221 | 1 in 46K | 221 | — | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Bank 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 Dutch, a) bank b) bench, sofa
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Dutch
In German, bank, bench
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In Danish, bank (financial institution, branch office, controller of a game, a safe and guaranteed place of storage)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a bank (financial institution, branch of such an institution)
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)
- Ted Bankb. 1897USAmerican football player and coach, baseball coach, college athletics administrator (1897-1986)
- Aaron Bankb. 1902USUnited States Army officer (1902–2004)
- Danny Bankb. 1922USAmerican jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist (1922-2010)
- Jan Bankb. 1940NLDutch historian
- Frank Bankb. 1942USAmerican actor (1942–2013)
- Jesper Bankb. 1957DKDanish sailor and Olympic champion
- Melissa Bankb. 1960USAmerican writer
- Ondřej Bankb. 1980CZCzech alpine skier
- Ashley Bankb. 1981USAmerican actress
- Jack BankUSactor
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 36 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,953 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,478 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,878 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 625 | #679 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 594 | #3,180 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 221 | #3,823 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Bank mean, and where does it come from?
- from mhd. banc 'bench, selling stand'; also from Bank as a place name Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Bank have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Bank in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bänk.
- Where is Bank most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bank is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 9.4 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bank?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,371 people named Bank in 2010, about 1 in 140 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bank?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bankThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Bank”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.