Banks
Banks is a boy name of English origin, meaning Dweller by the riverbank.
What Banks means
Dweller by the riverbank.
Banks sits at 5 letters, and ends on a consonant, which gives it a firmer stop.
Where Banks comes from
English names come from a long layering of Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, and biblical sources. Many began as surnames, place names, or occupations before they were ever used as first names.
Banks is recorded as English in origin. Browse other English names.
How popular is Banks?
Banks sits outside the top 100 boy names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Banks
Two ideas meet in Banks: Celebrity and water and the sea. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Banks
These share Banks's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Maxwell — From the great stream.
- Stormi — Stormy weather; a tempestuous spirit.
- Moses — Drawn from the water; deliverer.
- Bear — Strong and brave as a bear.
- Beckett — Dweller by the brook.
- Beckham — Homestead by the stream.
- Bronx — From the New York borough.
- Brooklyn — From the borough; broken land.
- Egypt — From the land of the Nile.
- Future — The time yet to come.
- Golden — Made of gold; precious.
- Hudson — Son of Hugh; of the river.
More English names
- Bailey — Steward; bailiff.
- Bay — An inlet of the sea; the laurel.
- Avery — Ruler of the elves; wise.
- Bear — Strong and brave as a bear.
- Aspen — The quaking aspen tree.
- Beckett — Dweller by the brook.
- Ashton — Town of ash trees.
- Beckham — Homestead by the stream.
- Ash — The ash tree.
- Bertie — Bright and famous.