Lobban
surname · Latin script
Meaning: probably a habitational name from some minor place named with Gaelic Idban ‘muddy place’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫɑbən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lobban is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- JMJamaica
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
probably a habitational name from some minor place named with Gaelic Idban ‘muddy place’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Lobban 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 English, A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, to flare up, burst into, blaze up (to burst into flames from a seemingly non-burning state)
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)
- John Lobbanb. 1919GBBritish medallist (1919-1996)
- Richard Lobbanb. 1943USAmerican anthropologist and archaeologist
- Christopher S. Lobbanb. 1950botanist
- Iain Lobbanb. 1960GBDirector of British intelligence gathering facility GCHQ
- Cook Classicsb. 1983USnot in their usual nameAmerican music producer, songwriter, and engineer
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 13 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 696 | #34,947 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 668 | #34,032 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 552 | #37,835 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #272,772 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #181 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Lobban mean, and where does it come from?
- probably a habitational name from some minor place named with Gaelic Idban ‘muddy place’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lobban?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɑbən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lobban have the most bearers?
- Lobban is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lobban”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.