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Banik

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

Polish and Slovak (Baník) : occupational name for a miner.
Polish : from a reduced form of Benedikt or Benedykt, vernacular forms of Benedictus (see Benedict).
Indian (Bengal, Assam, and Orissa) and Bangladeshi : Hindu (Baishya) name, from Sanskrit vạnik ‘merchant’.