Breban

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/breˈban/(recorded in a dictionary) Romanian · from Wiktionary

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Breban is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From breb + -an.

  • BEBelgium1 in 125K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 200K
  • ESSpain1 in 807K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Romania (inferred from the name graph)

≈790 people, est.

Record sources
130 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)

Romania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

From breb + -an.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Breban 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.

Where Breban is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania≈790 est.≈1 in 24K—Breban7
FR France≈340 est.≈1 in 200K47Breban130
US United States1321 in 2.5M141Breban13
BE Belgium941 in 125K94Breban11
ES Spain621 in 807K62Breban4
IT Italy≈62 est.≈1 in 951K—Breban2

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Breban is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Brebán

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Cuba, Romania

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bréban

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bréban

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Brebán

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
19001910192019301940Šalomoun Breban, b. 1906Vasile Breban, b. 1907Nicolae Breban, b. 1934

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)
FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Breban, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Breban
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020141#127,013
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010132#129,047
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200894#16,375
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—62#38,621
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—62#38,213
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196158—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195154—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199147—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192147—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198144—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197140—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193140—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

What does the name Breban mean, and where does it come from?
From breb + -an. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Breban?
In Romanian /breˈban/ (Wiktionary).
In which country does Breban have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 794 people named Breban in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled breban.
How common is the name Breban?
In the United States, the national register counted 132 people named Breban in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.

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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, “Breban”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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