Banner

Banner is the 6,445th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,074 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 58,900.

By the numbers

People: 5,074
Rank: 6,445th
How common: 1 in 58,900
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 67.7%
Black, not Hispanic 24.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Banner

David Banner (born 1974)American rapper, record producer and actor from Mississippi
John Banner (1910–1973)Austrian actor
Anna Banner (born 1995)Nigerian film actress

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

Surnames like Banner

Also a first name

Banner has been given to 834 American babies as a first name since 1916, peaking in 2023. 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.