Bannis
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bannis is a surname, with more bearers in Dominica than in any other country, where it is the 36th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script.
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M◐
- DMDominica1 in 355
- VIU.S. Virgin Islands1 in 2.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈416 ●
- Sources
- 116 ●
- 1 in 355 ◐
across 7 countries
1.3K records
Official registry-verified
Dominica
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DM Dominica | #36 | 209△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 355 | 209 | Bannis | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 153 | 132 rec. | — | — | Bannis | 16 |
| US United States | — | 147 | 1.1K rec. | 1 in 2.3M | 180 | Bannis | 116 |
| CA Canada | — | 37 | 41 rec. | — | — | Bannis | 14 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 23△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 751K | 23 | Bannis | 4 |
| EG Egypt | — | 19 | 5 rec. | — | — | Bannis | 8 |
| ES Spain | — | 11△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 4.5M | 11 | — | 2 |
| FR France | — | 11 | — | 1 in 6.2M | 11 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 8 | — | 1 in 734K | 8 | — | — |
| MA Morocco | — | 8 | 11 rec. | — | — | Bannis | 6 |
| VI U.S. Virgin Islands | #67 | 8 | 30 rec. | — | — | Bannis | 2 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | #204 | 7△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 7.7K | 7 | Bannis | 5 |
Roughly 209 people in Dominica bear this name (about 1 in 355). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English1.6K65%
- French29112%
- English (Dominica)1335%
- Spanish813%
- Arabic622%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 1,630 | 65% |
| French | 291 | 12% |
| English (Dominica) | 133 | 5% |
| Spanish | 81 | 3% |
| Arabic | 62 | 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●
Bannis is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, dative/ablative plural of bannus
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●
- Christian Bannisb. 1992DKDanish association football player (1992-)
- Naoufal Bannisb. 2002NLDutch association football player
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 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 209 | #67 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 180 | #105,671 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 147 | #118,185 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 23 | #47,042 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 11 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 11 | #114,632 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 10 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #48,686 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 7 | #175 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 4 | — |
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 · 21 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bannis?
- We estimate roughly 416 people bear Bannis (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Bannis have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 209 people bear Bannis in Dominica, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bannis.
- Where is Bannis most common?
- Bannis is densest in Dominica, where the national register counts about 1 in 355 people carrying it.
- How common is Bannis compared with other names?
- In Dominica, Bannis is the 36th most common surname of 997 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Bannis” — the 36th most common surname in Dominica. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.