Banna
surname · Latin script
Meaning: plural of bannum
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bænə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Banna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- TGTogo≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- LBLebanon≈1 in 20K
- SYSyria≈1 in 49K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈860 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Togo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
plural of bannum
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Banna 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 311K | — | Banna | 58 |
| TG Togo | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1 | — | 2 |
| SY Syria | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Banna | 3 |
| US United States | 276 | 1 in 1.2M | 376 | Banna | 42 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Banna | 6 |
| MA Morocco | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Banna | 2 |
| IL Israel | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Banna | 5 |
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; Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024). 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)
Banna 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, lang., Ethiopia
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Latin, nominative plural of bannum, alternative form of bannus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Scottish Gaelic, genitive singular of bann
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Faroese, to curse, to swear
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Tswana, plural of monna
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)
- Jorge Yarur Bannab. 1918PEPeruvian lawyer (1918-1991)
- Valér Bannab. 1939HUHungarian basketball player
- Rim Bannab. 1966PSPalestinian singer (1966–2018)
- Sinem Bannab. 1968TRTurkish artist (born 1968)
- Wassim El Bannab. 1979LBDanish footballer
- Marwa Bannab. 1989Ph.D. Université Paris-Est 2015
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 33 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 376 | #58,307 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 276 | #70,833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 255 | #71,372 |
| TG Togo | Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024) | 2024 | 1 | #12 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Banna mean, and where does it come from?
- plural of bannum Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Banna?
- A machine transcription gives /bænə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Banna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 859 people named Banna in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled banna.
- How common is the name Banna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 276 people named Banna in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bannaThe 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, “Banna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.