Barban
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person plural present indicative of barbar
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/baɾβan/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Barban is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 56K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 160K
- BRBrazil1 in 487K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- 1 in 56K (inferred from the name graph)
≈760 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)third-person plural present indicative of barbar
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Barban 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.
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual 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)Barban is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma reduzida ou truncada de Barbano.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Esperanto, accusative singular of barba
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)- Jean-Louis Barbanb. 1951FRFrench politician
- Laurent Barbanb. 1977FRFrench politician
- Caroline Barbanb. 2000FRresearcher
- Nicola BarbanITresearcher
- Tommy Barbanactor
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 435 | #19,272 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 377 | #58,182 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 362 | #56,444 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 205 | #84,968 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 72 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 69 | #35,659 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 69 | #35,495 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 69 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 69 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 67 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 66 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 63 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Barban mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person plural present indicative of barbar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Barban?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /baɾβan/; in Portuguese /baɾbɐ̃/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Barban have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 764 people named Barban in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barban.
- Where is Barban most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Barban is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 56 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Barban?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 435 people named Barban, about 1 in 487 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barbanThe 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, “Barban”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.