Origin of the name BAN Back

Origin

BANCHO : (Gaelic.) The white dog; from ban, white, and chu or cu, a dog. Bankhoo (Eng.), the high bank.

BANCROFT : Local. From the Cor. Br. ban, a mount, hill, or high ground; and croft, a small field near a dwelling a green pasture.

BANVARD : (Cor. Br.) Local. From ban, a mount, hill, or high ground; and vard, a rampart, that is, a fortified hill or castle.

BRISBAN : This name is local, and may signify the Mount or Hill of Judgment, a place where courts were held and law administered, among the Celts and Britons, from the Cornish-British brez or brys, a judgment, a trial at law, and ban, a hill, a mount In Gaelic, Breasban signifies the royal mount; Briosgabhain, the rapid river; Brisbeinn, the broken hill or cliff.

BRISBIN : This name is local, and may signify the Mount or Hill of Judgment, a place where courts were held and law administered, among the Celts and Britons, from the Cornish-British brez or brys, a judgment, a trial at law, and ban, a hill, a mount In Gaelic, Breasban signifies the royal mount; Briosgabhain, the rapid river; Brisbeinn, the broken hill or cliff.

McBAIN : The son of Bain. Bean or Ban, white, Donald Bean, Donald the white.

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