Bankert
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bankert is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United States. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Middle Low German banchart; a pejorative nickname formation.
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 222K◐
- USUnited States1 in 325K
- JMJamaica1 in 5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin●
from Middle Low German banchart; a pejorative nickname formation
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| US United States | 8,716 | 70% |
| GB United Kingdom | 1,046 | 8% |
| JM Jamaica | 958 | 8% |
| DE Germany | 280 | 2% |
| NL Netherlands | 228 | 2% |
≈11,228 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English10K82%
- German5154%
- Spanish3112%
- 2552%
- Polish2112%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 10,283 | 82% |
| German | 515 | 4% |
| Spanish | 311 | 2% |
| 255 | 2% | |
| Polish | 211 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Bankert is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, a hamlet in Gemert-Bakel, North Brabant, Netherlands
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, bastard (someone born out of wedlock)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name●
- Judd Bankertb. 1949USGuam biathlete
- Silvio Bankertb. 1985DEGerman footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,298 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #21,209 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,075 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 105 | #18,310 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 60 | #92,187 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 24 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 24 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 24 | #79,517 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 24 | #79,682 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 10 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bankert?
- Our records include 11,228 bearers of Bankert across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Bankert have the most bearers?
- Bankert is most frequently recorded in the United States.
- What does the name Bankert mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Middle Low German banchart; a pejorative nickname formation
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bankert”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.