Kurban
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kurban is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: victim.
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 8.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 12K
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kurban itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 named Курбан, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kyrgyzstan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Курбан in RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and Гурбан in AZ Azerbaijan.
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)
victim
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kurban 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #644 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | #214 | Курбан | 127 |
| AF Afghanistan | #293 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 1 | Kurban | 3 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 388K | — | Kurban | 5 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Kurban | 52 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Kurban | 8 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 145 | Гурбан | 13 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Курбан | 10 |
| GE Georgia | #992 | 334as კურბან | 1 in 12K | 334 | Kurban | 9 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 106 | Kurban | 13 |
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: Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Kurban 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 Albanian, sacrificed livestock (religion) on Eid or other Muslim holidays or (archaic) when building a house
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, the ritual sacrifice at Eid ul-Adha
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, accusative singular of kurba
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, »žrtva«
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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)
- Gurban Abbasovb. 1944AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani actor
- Kurban Berdyevb. 1952TMRussian footballer Russian footballer and manager
- Qurban Ali Oruzganib. 1958AFnot in their usual nameAfghan politician
- Gurban Gurbanovb. 1972AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani footballer
- Kurban Zamanovb. 1972RURussian association football player
- Kurban Omarovb. 1980RURussian businessman
- Kurban Kurbanovb. 1985UZUzbekistani sport wrestler (born 1985)
- Kurban Shiraevb. 1999RURussian freestyle wrestler
- Gurban AbbasliTRnot in their usual nameTurkish 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 28 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5 | #27,027 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Kurban mean, and where does it come from?
- victim Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Kurban a male or female name?
- Kurban is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Kurban?
- In the etymology graph, Qurban is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kurban have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Курбан in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kurban?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5 people named Kurban, about 1 in 3.5 million residents.
- How common is Kurban compared with other names?
- In Russia, Kurban is the 644th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kurban?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kurbanThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kurban” — the 644th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.