Orban

surname · Latin script

Meaning: zum Rufnamen Orban, ungar

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈɔɹbən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Orban is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary≈1 in 6.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium1 in 5.9K
  • RORomania≈1 in 9.2K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈10,000 people, est.

Sources
98 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in German

zum Rufnamen Orban, ungar. Form von Urban(us) < lat. urbanus 'städtisch, aus der Stadt'

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Orban 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 Orban is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈10,000 est.≈1 in 138K—Orban2
NG Nigeria—≈3,300 est.≈1 in 66K—Orban7
RO Romania—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 9.2K—Orban38
BE Belgium—1,9801 in 5.9K2KOrban10
US United States—1,4851 in 224K1.8KOrban84
HU Hungary#162≈1,400 est.≈1 in 6.9K11KOrban98
HR Croatia—1041 in 41K104——
SI Slovenia—321 in 66K32—2

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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

Orban is also recorded as 5 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, Nigeria, Canada

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Orbán, Orbàn, Òrbàn

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Spain, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Orbán, Orbän, Orbàn

  • Croatian surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Serbia, Sweden

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian

    Also written Orbán, Орбан, Orbân

  • Ukrainian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, United States

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Орбан, Orbán

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Orbán

53 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Orban 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, Patronym zu lat. Rufname Urbanus, mit Senkung von U zu O. 384 Belege.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In German, Aus dem Rufnamen Urban(us) gebildeter Familienname; 384 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • Nacido en la ciudad

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In English, A Hungarian ethnic surname from Hungarian.

    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)

180018501900195020002050Walthère Frère-Orban, b. 1812Olga Orban-Szabo, b. 1938Árpád Orbán, b. 1938László Orbán, b. 1949Leonard Orban, b. 1961Victor Orban, b. 1963Ludovic Orban, b. 1963Balázs Orbán, b. 1986Willi Orbán, b. 1992Gift Orban, b. 2002

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)

FormalDear Orban,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 40 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Orban
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20082K#525
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—1.9K#560
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.8K#15,897
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.6K#16,360
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.5K#18,572
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021104#7,654
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202196—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—32#10,294
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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

How do you pronounce Orban?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɔɹbən/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Orban mean?
Recorded meaning: zum Rufnamen Orban, ungar.
In which country does Orban have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Orban in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled orban.
Where is Orban most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Orban is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 5.9 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Orban?
In Belgium, the national register counted 1,980 people named Orban in 2008, about 1 in 5.9 thousand residents.
How common is Orban compared with other names?
In Hungary, Orban is the 162nd most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Orban” — the 162nd most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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