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First name origin & meaning:

Old English: Bean field

First name variations: Bankroft, Bancrofft

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: habitational name from any of various minor places called Bancroft, from Old English bēan ‘beans’ (a collective singular) + croft ‘paddock’, ‘smallholding’.
  2. John Bancroft came to MA on board the ‘James’ in 1632.

This name appears in the following lists: Silver Screen