Balabán
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/ˈbalabaːn/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary
Balabán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 3.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 15K
- SISlovenia1 in 28K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Balaban in TR Türkiye, US United States, RO Romania and 3 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)< tc. bataban o rasa de soimi (Pas). 1. - mold. (Has), nume folosit de armeni si de poloni (Costin). 2. Balaban (Ard I ; Pas).
Cited for this meaning 3
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Balabán 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #411 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Balaban | 84 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Balaban | 9 |
| US United States | — | 1,233 | 1 in 270K | 1.2K | Balaban | 58 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Balaban | 3 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Balaban | 5 |
| MD Moldova | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Balaban | 3 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Imre Balabánb. 1889HU(1889-1947) insurance expert, classical pianist, folk song collector
- Josef Balabánb. 1894CZCzech general and warrior
- Péter Balabánb. 1917HU(1917-2002) literary trenslator, correspondent
- Milan Balabánb. 1929CZCzech professor of religion and Old Testament. (1929–2019)
- Milan Balabánb. 1944CZCzech senator of Czech Parliament (1944-2020)
- Zdenek Balabanb. 1955CZCzech ice hockey player
- Daniel Balabánb. 1957CZartist (born 1957)
- Jan Balabánb. 1961CZCzech writer and translator (1961–2010)
- Miloš Balabánb. 1962CZCzech sociologist
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Balabán?
- It depends on the language: in Czech /ˈbalabaːn/ (Wiktionary); in Hungarian /bɒlɑban/; in Slovak /ˈbalabaːn/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Balabán have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Balabán in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balaban.
- How common is the name Balabán?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,233 people named Balabán in 2010, about 1 in 270 thousand residents.
- How common is Balabán compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Balabán is the 411th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/balab%C3%A1nThe 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, “Balabán” — the 411th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.