Family name origins & meanings
- Spanish : habitational name from various places named with banda, probably in the sense ‘side’, ‘edge’, ‘part’.
- Hungarian : of uncertain origin; probably from the old secular personal name Bán.
- Jewish (from Poland) : metonymic occupational name from Polish banda ‘ribbon’.
- In some instances, perhaps an altered spelling of German and Dutch Bande (see Band).
- Croatian or Serbian : nickname for a bandit, from banda ‘band’, ‘gang’. This name originates from the Kordun and Krajina region on the former border between Croatia and Bosnia.