Bàn

surname · Latin script

Meaning: table

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bàn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Vietnam than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • VNVietnam≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 1.5K
  • SISlovenia1 in 3.5K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Vietnam (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,900 people, est.

Sources
99 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bạn in VN Vietnam.

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)

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Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bàn 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.

Where Bàn is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VN Vietnam#125≈2,900 est.≈1 in 34KlistedBạn99
HR Croatia—2,7791 in 1.5K2.8K——
US United States—2,0111 in 165K2.2K—63
SI Slovenia—5981 in 3.5K598——
IN India—3671 in 3.6M367—4
CH Switzerland—781 in 108K78—2
NO Norway—421 in 130K44—1

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: the vn-kaggle-surname register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bàn is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, France, Thailand, Vietnam

    Also written Ban, Bán, Bạn, Bañ, Bản

  • Spanish surname60 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, Brazil, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese

    Also written Bañ, Ban, Bán, Bạn, Bân

  • Hungarian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania

    Languages: Hungarian, Slovak

    Also written Bán, Bañ, Bản, Ban, Bạn

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Bắn, Ban, Bận, Bần, Bạn

10 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bàn is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 伴

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In mkh-mvi, to examine, to consider

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In tyz, to discuss; to decide

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Scottish Gaelic, white, pale, fair

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Pan Youguangnot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 416470
  • Pan Mingnot in their usual nameperson, CBDB ID = 416471

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Bàn
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
VN VietnamVietnamese surnames (Kaggle)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bàn mean, and where does it come from?
table Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Bàn have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Bàn in Vietnam, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bạn.
Where is Bàn most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bàn is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though Vietnam holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bàn?
In Croatia, the national register counted 2,779 people named Bàn in 2021, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
How common is Bàn compared with other names?
In Vietnam, Bàn is the 125th most common surname of 62,915 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Bàn” — the 125th most common surname in Vietnam. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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