Banks — #366 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Banks

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,356 babies named Banks between 1883 and 2024, spanning 142 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Banks currently holds the #366 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 941 babies received it in a single year. Banks is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 418 additional births since 2018.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Banks performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 3,531 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Banks shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 461 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Banks in 41 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Banks in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 5,356 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.