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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish (Baños) : habitational name from any of numerous places named for their public baths, bañnos (from Latin balnea). In some instances the name may have arisen as a metonymic occupational name for an attendant at a public bath house.
  • Hungarian (Bános) : from a pet form of the old secular personal name Bán.

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