Serban
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Serban is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Romanian Șerban.
- RORomania≈1 in 500(inferred from the name graph)
- MDMoldova≈1 in 12K
- ITItaly≈1 in 22Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 155 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 500 (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, 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)Borrowed from Romanian Șerban.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where the surname Serban is found
(measured from records)Serban 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #20 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 500 | — | Serban | 123 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 1 | Serban | 39 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,099 | 1 in 24K | 2.1K | Serban | 53 |
| US United States | — | 556 | 1 in 598K | 577 | Serban | 155 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Serban | 74 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Serban | 20 |
| MD Moldova | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 2 | — | 14 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); e-services.md — living 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Serban 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 Kurdish, Rooftop, high terrace, an airy place where the stars are observed on great mountains
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
In Esperanto, accusative singular of serba
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, turban (man’s head-dress)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Kurdish, roof
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)- Chris Serbanb. 1995ROassociation football player
- Elena Alexandra SerbanSEresearcher
- Florin Serbancorrespondence chess 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Serban mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Romanian Șerban. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Serban?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Serban in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled serban. After it come Italy, Spain, United States and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Serban?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,099 people named Serban, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Serban compared with other names?
- In Romania, Serban is the 20th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Serban?
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/serbanThe 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, “Serban” — the 20th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.