Amban
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A Chinese official under the Qing Dynasty, especially the ranking official or provincial governor in a semi-independent territory under Chinese rule
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Amban is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 107K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 925K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 1M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 107K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A Chinese official under the Qing Dynasty, especially the ranking official or provincial governor in a semi-independent territory under Chinese rule.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Amban 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 107K | Amban | 13 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 925K | Amban | 24 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 1M | Amban | 12 |
| KE Kenya | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | Amban | 4 |
| US United States | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 46M | Amban | 8 |
| CA Canada | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 8.5M | Amban | 3 |
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.
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)
Amban is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In xgn-pro, big, large, heavy; minister, official
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In Portuguese, amban (provincial governor in a semi-independent territory under Chinese rule)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hnn, catching or shooting down (as of game)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tuw-pro, evil spirit, fiend
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cel-pro, butter
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Amban mean, and where does it come from?
- A Chinese official under the Qing Dynasty, especially the ranking official or provincial governor in a semi-independent territory under Chinese rule. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Amban have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Amban in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled amban.
- How common is the name Amban?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,000 people in the Philippines have Amban as their first surname, about 1 in 107 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ambanThe 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, “Amban”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.