Albàn
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Albàn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A variant of Arban, with regular r-l change.
- FRFrance≈1 in 3.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania1 in 905
- XKKosovo≈1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Albàn itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 333 (measured from records)
- 1 in 905 (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Alban in FR France, XK Kosovo, CH Switzerland and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A variant of Arban, with regular r-l change.
Sources 10
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Albàn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #520 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 29K | Alban | 333 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #596 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Alban | 3 |
| AL Albania | — | 3,398 | 1 in 905 | 3.4K | — | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | listed | Alban | 33 |
| XK Kosovo | #275 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 6K | Alban | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | 85 | Alban | 43 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 783as Албан | 1 in 2.7K | 783 | — | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); State Statistical Office — living population names; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Albàn mean, and where does it come from?
- A variant of Arban, with regular r-l change. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and A concise dictionary of first names and 8 other sources.
- In which country does Albàn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Albàn in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alban.
- Where is Albàn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Albàn is densest in Albania — about 1 in 905 people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Albàn?
- In Albania, the national register counted 3,398 people named Albàn, about 1 in 905 residents.
- How common is Albàn compared with other names?
- In France, Albàn is the 520th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alb%C3%A0nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Albàn” — the 520th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.