Garbán

surname · Latin script

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

rarermore common
  • VEVenezuela≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
  • UYUruguay1 in 212K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 242K

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.

Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,700 people, est.

Sources
41 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

Venezuela, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Garban in VE Venezuela, PH Philippines, US United States 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Garbán 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 Garbán is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela≈1,700 est.≈1 in 17K—Garban29
PH Philippines≈450 est.≈1 in 242K—Garban11
US United States1181 in 2.8M159Garban41
FR France≈100 est.≈1 in 668K11——
BR Brazil671 in 3.2M67Garban15
CL Chile≈47 est.≈1 in 390K—Garban14
DO Dominican Republic≈34 est.≈1 in 309K—Garban4
UY Uruguay161 in 212K16—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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Garbán is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Garban, Gârban

1 further group 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Cardopusherb. 1981VEnot in their usual nameVenezuelan musician

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 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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

In which country does Garbán have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Garbán in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garban.
How common is the name Garbán?
In the United States, the national register counted 118 people named Garbán in 2010, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.

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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, “Garbán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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