Kobán
surname · Latin script
Kobán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Slavic *kobь or a derivative of the personal name Jakob ("Jacob").
- SISlovenia1 in 26K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 250K
- HUHungary≈1 in 508K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
206 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
From Proto-Slavic *kobь or a derivative of the personal name Jakob ("Jacob").
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kobán 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 206 | 1 in 1.6M | 222 | — | 3 |
| PL Poland | 153 | 1 in 250K | 79 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 80 | 1 in 26K | 80 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 21 | 1 in 510K | 21 | — | — |
| HU Hungary | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 508K | — | Kobán | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | 2 |
206 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bálint Kobánb. 1992chess player
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
- What does the name Kobán mean, and where does it come from?
- From Proto-Slavic *kobь or a derivative of the personal name Jakob ("Jacob"). Recorded by Wiktionary and Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- In which country does Kobán have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 206 people named Kobán, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kobán most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kobán is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kobán?
- In the United States, the national register counted 206 people named Kobán in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kobán?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kob%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, “Kobán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.