Banes
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Frequency: (604)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Variant of Scottish and English Baines.
2. Spanish (Bañes): habitational name from a place in Palencia named Bañes.
3. German: perhaps a variant or a patronymic from the Frisian personal name Bane, from ban ‘decree’, ‘ban’.
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