Name «Banko»

The earliest records of the male name Banko (including its truncated variant Bank) are found in the monuments of the Tisza River basin. For example, in 1211: "iudice Bank" — near the town of Solnok; in 1213: "iudicibus Banko comite" — from the Bihar County; in 1383: nobleman Banko — the village of Sarvasovo; in 1404: voivode Banko — the city of Sighet; in 1515: nobleman Jo. dictus Bank — the village of Bilki.During the 16th-17th centuries, surnames derived from the anthroponyms Banko, Banik, Bann, Banik, and Banniy are frequently mentioned in Maramures. Outside Ukraine, the name Banko and its truncated variant Bank are recorded in all Danube countries of the Balkan Peninsula. It is most often derived from the military term of Turkic origin "ban" — "leader of a horde," which later came to mean "viceroy of a region," a term that evolved into a proper personal name among the Avars, Mongols, Bulgarians, Hungarians, and Turks over time. Therefore, it is perceived as a title of the Avar khagan who established his Avar state in the Balkans in the second half of the 6th century.Bulgarian anthroponymists tend to qualify the name as a diminutive formation from the name Bano or as a shortening of the name Virbanko. Romanian onomast Jordan sees the Hungarian name Bank as even being a calendar name of Latin origin, Benedikt.