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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BANES

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Name meanings and etymologies are often disputed. The information here is compiled from freely available sources, and no claims whatsoever are made for accuracy, either historical or etymological.

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’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)