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Bancroft
Gender:
Boy
Origin:
English
Bancroft \b(a)-ncro-ft, ban(c)-roft\ as a boy's name is of Old English origin, and the meaning of Bancroft is "field of beans". One of the Anglo-Saxon place names used as given names to refer to simple, homely agricultural landmarks. Huwe Howe Bancroft was a prominent historian in the western America whose collection forms the nucleus of the Bancroft Library of the University of California. Bancroft has 5 variant forms: Ban, Bancrofft, Banfield, Bank and Binky.