Gabán
surname · Latin script
Meaning: overcoat
Gabán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 110Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 366K
- BRBrazil1 in 532K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 91K (inferred from the name graph)
≈960 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malaysia, 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 Gaban in BR Brazil, PH Philippines, ES Spain 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)overcoat
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gabán 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Gaban | 14 |
| BR Brazil | 398 | 1 in 532K | 398 | Gaban | 51 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Gaban | 5 |
| ES Spain | 91 | 1 in 550K | 91 | Gaban | 20 |
| US United States | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | listed | Gaban | 14 |
| BE Belgium | 32 | 1 in 366K | 32 | — | 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 Gabán mean, and where does it come from?
- overcoat Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Gabán have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 961 people named Gabán in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaban.
- How common is the name Gabán?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 398 people named Gabán, about 1 in 532 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gabán?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gab%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, “Gabán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.