Meaning not yet researched.
Banks: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,099 in 2025. Its best rank was #310 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 93% of babies named Banks in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#310 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Banks: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,099 boys in 2025. Peak: #310 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 1,099 (2025).
In 2025, 1,099 US boys were named Banks, making it the 310th most common boys’ name of the year, up 56 places from #366 in 2024. That is 197 more than the 902 boys named Banks in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #310, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,099. For comparison, it was #1,539 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Banks in 86 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 5 babies. In all, 6,970 US babies have been given the name, 7.3% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5,115 babies named Banks.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,269 US boys were named Banks; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,099. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,554 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Banks ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #105 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Banx are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Banx (396).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Banks in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 50 | #105 | — |
| Montana | 10 | #127 | — |
| Kansas | 26 | #143 | #590 |
| Iowa | 29 | #144 | — |
| South Dakota | 9 | #148 | — |
| Arkansas | 24 | #152 | — |
| Idaho | 18 | #152 | — |
| Oklahoma | 30 | #163 | — |
| Alabama | 35 | #163 | #717 |
| West Virginia | 11 | #168 | — |
| North Carolina | 71 | #176 | #454 |
| Georgia | 70 | #178 | #708 |
| North Dakota | 6 | #194 | — |
| South Carolina | 29 | #194 | #403 |
| Nebraska | 12 | #211 | — |
| Mississippi | 14 | #218 | — |
| Colorado | 28 | #230 | — |
| Minnesota | 27 | #232 | — |
| Missouri | 29 | #245 | — |
| Tennessee | 33 | #269 | — |
| Washington | 27 | #272 | — |
| Maryland | 20 | #272 | — |
| Oregon | 15 | #281 | — |
| Indiana | 27 | #293 | #802 |
| Wisconsin | 17 | #321 | — |
| Florida | 58 | #332 | — |
| Louisiana | 15 | #338 | — |
| Ohio | 32 | #351 | — |
| Michigan | 24 | #364 | — |
| Virginia | 22 | #367 | — |
| Texas | 99 | #372 | #2,423 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #377 | — |
| Arizona | 19 | #398 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | #428 | — |
| Nevada | 6 | #451 | — |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #475 | — |
| Illinois | 19 | #516 | — |
| California | 56 | #545 | #1,555 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,044 | — |
| New York | 11 | #1,063 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 89 | #2,105 | 1,099 | #310 |
| 2024 | 97 | #2,013 | 902 | #366 |
| 2023 | 79 | #2,319 | 941 | #348 |
| 2022 | 85 | #2,211 | 787 | #408 |
| 2021 | 82 | #2,253 | 582 | #504 |
| 2020 | 50 | #3,149 | 322 | #753 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,642 | 241 | #913 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,691 | 156 | #1,203 |
| 2017 | — | — | 113 | #1,488 |
| 2016 | — | — | 126 | #1,390 |
| 2015 | — | — | 106 | #1,539 |
| 2014 | — | — | 92 | #1,671 |
| 2013 | — | — | 56 | #2,282 |
| 2012 | — | — | 71 | #1,983 |
| 2011 | — | — | 55 | #2,322 |
| 2010 | — | — | 49 | #2,518 |
| 2009 | — | — | 45 | #2,707 |
| 2008 | — | — | 26 | #3,934 |
| 2007 | — | — | 18 | #5,017 |
| 2006 | — | — | 35 | #3,092 |
| 2005 | — | — | 26 | #3,628 |
| 2004 | — | — | 11 | #6,578 |
| 2003 | — | — | 13 | #5,590 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,130 |
| 2001 | — | — | 15 | #4,913 |
| 2000 | — | — | 16 | #4,601 |
| 1999 | — | — | 10 | #6,086 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #7,636 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,224 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,555 |
| 1990 | — | — | 9 | #5,414 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,502 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,384 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,281 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #4,783 |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #3,988 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,108 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,073 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,025 |
| 1956 | — | — | 7 | #3,239 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #2,980 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,758 |
| 1952 | — | — | 10 | #2,529 |
| 1951 | — | — | 9 | #2,674 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #3,726 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,342 |
| 1947 | — | — | 11 | #2,369 |
| 1946 | — | — | 8 | #2,708 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,250 |
| 1942 | — | — | 8 | #2,722 |
| 1941 | — | — | 8 | #2,672 |
| 1940 | — | — | 8 | #2,678 |
| 1939 | — | — | 10 | #2,299 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,665 |
| 1937 | — | — | 9 | #2,498 |
| 1936 | — | — | 7 | #2,879 |
| 1935 | — | — | 7 | #2,978 |
| 1934 | — | — | 10 | #2,407 |
| 1933 | — | — | 7 | #3,030 |
| 1932 | — | — | 10 | #2,476 |
| 1931 | — | — | 9 | #2,671 |
| 1930 | — | — | 10 | #2,622 |
| 1929 | — | — | 13 | #2,215 |
| 1928 | — | — | 15 | #2,054 |
| 1927 | — | — | 16 | #2,047 |
| 1926 | — | — | 10 | #2,739 |
| 1925 | — | — | 13 | #2,323 |
| 1924 | — | — | 11 | #2,662 |
| 1923 | — | — | 12 | #2,461 |
| 1922 | — | — | 22 | #1,652 |
| 1921 | — | — | 13 | #2,386 |
| 1920 | — | — | 22 | #1,646 |
| 1919 | — | — | 18 | #1,814 |
| 1918 | — | — | 14 | #2,169 |
| 1917 | — | — | 11 | #2,433 |
| 1916 | — | — | 12 | #2,272 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,645 |
| 1914 | — | — | 8 | #2,469 |
| 1913 | — | — | 9 | #1,958 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,296 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,551 |
| 1909 | — | — | 7 | #1,162 |
| 1905 | — | — | 7 | #1,010 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #980 |
| 1887 | — | — | 8 | #690 |
| 1883 | — | — | 5 | #902 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).