Baños Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

It is easy to miss Baños in an index if you only search for Banuelos. The family name meaning is “Little baths”, the same as for Banuelos. Baños is listed among the recognised spellings of Banuelos. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard.

Spain's INE counts 9,037 residents with Baños as first surname and 9,157 with it as second. Between 1891 and 2000, 1,109 babies born in France were registered as Baños, with the most births in 1961–1970. There were 45 such births in the 1890s and 140 in the 1990s.

Arms linked to Banuelos and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Baños surname pack.