Banks
English surname
"one who lives on the hillside or riverbank"Share
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Banks Origin and Meaning
The name Banks is a boy's name meaning "one who lives on the hillside or riverbank".
Banks is a topographical surname that refers not to those places where people keep their money but to riverbanks or hillsides, and specifically the people who live on them. Just as Fields is a last name that relates to people who lived in, yes, fields, so Banks was a name originally given to people who dwelled on the banks of a river. Today, used as a first name, Banks is more likely to sound like an upwardly-mobile name related to financial establishments, okay if you're going for the glitter.
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- Banksfamily in "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air"
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- "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" Scottish song
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