as a Last Name
- 2,972
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Bankhead
Meaning & Origins
Scottish and northern Irish: topographic name for someone who lived at the top or end of a bank or hill (see Banks 1) or habitational name from a place with this origin. There are several minor places in Scotland so called, but the most likely source of the surname is one on the border between the parishes of Kilmarnock and Dreghorn in Ayrshire.
| 9,389th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,972
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Utah
- has the most people named Bankhead per capita
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