Bourban
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bourban is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 12Kas บัวบาน(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 26K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 485Kas บัวบาน
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 Bourban 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,900 named บัวบาน, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Buaban in US United States, SG Singapore, บัวบาน in TH Thailand and บัวบาล in ID Indonesia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bourban 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #512 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | #318,970 | บัวบาน | 87 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 485K | — | บัวบาล | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 318 | 1 in 26K | 318 | — | — |
| US United States | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 30M | listed | Buaban | 19 |
| FR France | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 37M | 18 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Buaban | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | 1as Buaban | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 1 |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pierre Bourbanb. 1854CH(1854-1920)
- Louis Bourbanb. 1917CHSwiss cross-country skier
- Didier Bourbanb. 1959FRFrench politician
- Jean-Pierre Bourbanb. 1960FRFrench politician
- Michel Bourbanb. 1987CHSwiss philosopher
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 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 318 | #4,126 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 12 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- In which country does Bourban have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.9 thousand people named บัวบาน in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bourban most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bourban is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bourban?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 318 people named Bourban in 2024, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Bourban compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Bourban is the 512th most common surname of 1,135,150 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bourban?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bourbanThe 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, “Bourban” — the 512th most common surname in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.