Gurban
given name · Latin script
Meaning: sacrifice
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡˈʊrβɑːn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gurban is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Turkmenistan than in any other country.
- TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 2.9K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 42K
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 Gurban 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.
- Turkmenistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Turkmenistan, est.
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)
sacrifice
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gurban 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TM Turkmenistan | #200 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 1K | #7 | Gurban | 9 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Gurban | 18 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Gurban | 2 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Gurban | 2 |
| GE Georgia | — | 294as გურბან | 1 in 14K | 294 | Gurban | 9 |
| PL Poland | — | 53 | 1 in 722K | 63 | — | — |
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: Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gurban is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In xgn-pro, three
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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. 1944AZAzerbaijani actor
- Kurban Berdyevb. 1952TMnot in their usual nameRussian footballer Russian footballer and manager
- Qurban Ali Oruzganib. 1958AFnot in their usual nameAfghan politician
- Gurban Gurbanovb. 1972AZAzerbaijani footballer
- Kurban Zamanovb. 1972RUnot in their usual nameRussian association football player
- Kurban Omarovb. 1980RUnot in their usual nameRussian businessman
- Kurban Kurbanovb. 1985UZnot in their usual nameUzbekistani sport wrestler (born 1985)
- Kurban Shiraevb. 1999RUnot in their usual nameRussian freestyle wrestler
- Gurban AbbasliTRTurkish 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 53 | #3,198 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 48 | #3,218 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Gurban mean, and where does it come from?
- sacrifice Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gurban?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡˈʊrβɑːn/ (IPA) for Turkmen.
- Is Gurban a male or female name?
- Gurban 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 Gurban?
- In the etymology graph, Qurban is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Gurban have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.4 thousand people named Gurban in Turkmenistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gurban.
- How common is the name Gurban?
- In Poland, the national register counted 53 people named Gurban in 2026, about 1 in 722 thousand residents.
- How common is Gurban compared with other names?
- In Turkmenistan, Gurban is the 200th most common given name of 38,989 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gurban?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gurbanThe 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, “Gurban” — the 200th most common given name in Turkmenistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.