Garban
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person plural present indicative of garbar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/gaɾβan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Garban is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 212K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 242K
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
third-person plural present indicative of garbar
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Garban 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Garban | 29 |
| PH Philippines | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Garban | 11 |
| US United States | 118 | 1 in 2.8M | 159 | Garban | 41 |
| FR France | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 668K | 11 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 67 | 1 in 3.2M | 67 | Garban | 15 |
| CL Chile | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 390K | — | Garban | 14 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 309K | — | Garban | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | 16 | 1 in 212K | 16 | — | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Lucien Garbanb. 1877FRFrench musician and musicologist
- Christophe Garbanb. 1982FRmathematician, Ph.D. Université Paris-Sud XI - Orsay 2008
- Hermes Garbanresearcher
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)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 159 | #116,252 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 118 | #141,140 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 116 | #134,037 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 67 | #85,160 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 18 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 11 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
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 Garban mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person plural present indicative of garbar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Garban?
- A machine transcription gives /gaɾβan/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Garban have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Garban in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled garban.
- How common is the name Garban?
- In the United States, the national register counted 118 people named Garban in 2010, about 1 in 2.8 million 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/garbanThe 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, “Garban”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.