Banny

given name · Latin script

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

Banny is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: West African: title/name from a Toure Kunda song about a girl seeking wealth.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 364K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 2.1M
  • CZCzechia1 in 5.4M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

155 people, 2020

Sources
48 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 364K (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

West African: title/name from a Toure Kunda song about a girl seeking wealth.

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Banny 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.

Where Banny is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1551 in 2.1M103Banny48
CR Costa Rica141 in 364K14—4
CZ Czechia21 in 5.4M2——
PE Peru———Banny18
MX Mexico———Banny25
HN Honduras———Banny4
GT Guatemala———Banny12

155 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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)

Banny is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines

    Also written Bãññy

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

39 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Banny
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

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 Banny mean, and where does it come from?
West African: title/name from a Toure Kunda song about a girl seeking wealth. Recorded by African Names.
Is Banny a male or female name?
Banny is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Banny have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 155 people named Banny, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled banny.
Where is Banny most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Banny is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 364 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Banny?
In the United States, the national register counted 155 people named Banny in 2020, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.

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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, “Banny”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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