Last 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’.
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