Banks

103,658 people in the United States were counted with the surname Banks in the 2020 census, making it the 297th most common in the country. That is about one person in 2,884.

By the numbers

People: 103,658
Rank: 297th
How common: 1 in 2,884
Per 100,000: 34.7

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Banks described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 52.6%
White, not Hispanic 37.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Banks

Tyra Banks (born 1973)American television personality, producer, and former model
Elizabeth Banks (born 1974)American actress and director
Gordon Banks (1937–2019)English association football player
Iain Banks (1954–2013)Scottish writer
Joseph Banks (1743–1820)English naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences
Jonathan Banks (born 1947)American actor
Azealia Banks (born 1991)American rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman
Briana Banks (born 1979)German-American pornographic actress and model

People named Banks with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Banks

Also a first name

Banks has been given to 6,970 American babies as a first name since 1883, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.