Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Bean field

Boy name variations

Bankroft
Bancrofft

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various minor places called Bancroft, from Old English bēan ‘beans’ (a collective singular) + croft ‘paddock’, ‘smallholding’.
  • John Bancroft came to MA on board the ‘James’ in 1632.

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