Banks
Banks was given to 1,099 boys in 2025, #310 among boys’ names; 6,970 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,520 Americans named Banks and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 6.
Banks came back: it left the boys’ top 1,000 after 1891 and returned in 2019.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Banks by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Banks?
#310 among boys’ names, 2025
Banks rose from #1,539 in 2015 to #310 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.06 to 0.64 per 1,000.
1,188 babies in 2025, the peak
Banks peaked in 2025, when 1,188 babies were given it (1,099 boys, #310 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 902 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,099 | #310 | 0.64 |
| 2024 | 902 | #366 | 0.52 |
| 2023 | 941 | #348 | 0.55 |
| 2022 | 787 | #408 | 0.45 |
| 2021 | 582 | #504 | 0.33 |
| 2020 | 322 | #753 | 0.19 |
| 2019 | 241 | #913 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 156 | #1,203 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 113 | #1,488 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 126 | #1,390 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 106 | #1,539 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 92 | #1,671 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 56 | #2,281 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 71 | #1,982 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 55 | #2,321 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 49 | #2,517 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 45 | #2,706 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,931 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,014 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 35 | #3,091 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 26 | #3,624 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,572 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,583 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,123 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 15 | #4,907 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,594 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,080 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,628 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,218 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,548 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,407 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,495 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,379 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,279 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,781 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #3,987 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,107 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,072 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #4,024 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,238 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 8 | #2,979 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,757 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,528 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,673 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #3,724 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,340 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,368 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,707 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,249 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,721 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,671 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 8 | #2,678 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,299 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 8 | #2,665 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,498 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 7 | #2,878 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 7 | #2,978 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,407 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,029 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,476 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,670 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,620 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,214 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,054 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,047 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,737 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,322 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,661 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,460 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,652 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,385 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,646 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 18 | #1,813 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,168 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,432 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,271 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,644 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,468 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 9 | #1,957 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,295 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,550 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,162 | 0.04 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,009 | 0.05 |
| 1891 | 5 | #979 | 0.05 |
| 1887 | 8 | #690 | 0.08 |
| 1883 | 5 | #901 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Banks a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,970 Americans recorded as Banks, 7% are girls and 93% boys. In 2025 it went to 89 girls and 1,099 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Banks: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Banks, and how old are they?
6,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 6,970 Americans ever recorded as Banks. The median Banks alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 6.
The 2020 Census counted 1,663 people named Banks (93 women and girls, 1,570 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,567 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 21 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 54 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 13 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 29 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 409 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,000 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Banks born?
The states with the most babies named Banks are Texas, North Carolina and Georgia, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 110 | #372 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 76 | #176 | 2.3× |
| Georgia | 76 | #178 | 1.7× |
| California | 63 | #545 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 58 | #332 | 0.7× |
| Utah | 50 | #105 | 2.5× |
| Alabama | 35 | #163 | 1.3× |
| Colorado | 34 | #230 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 33 | #269 | 1.2× |
| Minnesota | 33 | #232 | 1.0× |
Where Banks is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Banks is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 2.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Banks with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Banks
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Banks and names like it
- Compare Banks and SaintBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBanks peaked in 2025.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Banks since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Banks.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Banks alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.