Iban
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Iban is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as third-person plural imperfect indicative of ir.
- ESSpain1 in 13K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 67K
- PEPeru≈1 in 67K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 165 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
3,933 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
third-person plural imperfect indicative of ir
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Iban is read(measured from records)
Iban is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish64%
third-person plural imperfect indicative of ir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Iban in French.
- English6.1%
Initialism of International Bank Account Number.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Iban 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.
3,933 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)
Iban is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from Johannes
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Cebuano, the difference; the quantity obtained after subtracting numbers
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In iba, Iban (A member of a branch of the Dayak peoples of Borneo).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, companion, someone together with someone else
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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)
- Iban Zalduab. 1966ESSpanish writer
- Iban Leónb. 1975ESSpanish poet
- Iban García del Blancob. 1977ESSpanish politician
- Iban Toledo Ibañezb. 1978ESBasque writer, producer and film director
- Iban Zubiaurreb. 1983ESSpanish footballer
- Iban Coellob. 1983ESSpanish comic-book artist
- Iban Iyangab. 1987ESEquatorial Guinean association football player
- Iban Laclaub. 2004FRFrench rugby union player
- Iban Hortal BotifollESSpanish politician
- Iban Cidmanaging director
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 33 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 393 | #9,697 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 393 | #9,683 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Iban mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person plural imperfect indicative of ir Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Iban a male or female name?
- Iban is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Iban?
- In the etymology graph, John, Juan and Ivan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Iban have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Iban, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iban.
- Where is Iban most common?
- Iban is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Iban?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,933 people named Iban, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Iban compared with other names?
- In Spain, Iban is the 842nd most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ibanThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Iban” — the 842nd most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.