Orbàn
surname · Latin script
Orbàn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country. Recorded meaning: * As a Hungarian surname, from Hungarian Orbán. Doublet of Urban. * As a Walloon (French) and German surname, from a variant of Urbain, from Latin urbanus.
- USUnited States1 in 224K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 5.9K
- HRCroatia1 in 41K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belgium (measured from records)
- Sources
- 248 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)
1,980 people, 2008
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Orban in US United States, BE Belgium, ES Spain.
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)
- HungarianOrbán(measured from records)
- Latinurbanus(measured from records)
* As a Hungarian surname, from Hungarian Orbán. Doublet of Urban. * As a Walloon (French) and German surname, from a variant of Urbain, from Latin urbanus.
Sources 1
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Orbàn 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 1,980 | 1 in 5.9K | 2K | Orban | 53 |
| US United States | 1,485 | 1 in 224K | 1.8K | Orban | 248 |
| ES Spain | 190 | 1 in 263K | 190 | Orban | 11 |
| HR Croatia | 104 | 1 in 41K | 104 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 88 | 1 in 517K | 88 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 79 | 1 in 129K | 79 | — | 9 |
| NO Norway | 52 | 1 in 105K | 52 | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | 32 | 1 in 66K | 32 | — | 1 |
1,980 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Orbàn mean, and where does it come from?
- * As a Hungarian surname, from Hungarian Orbán. Doublet of Urban. * As a Walloon (French) and German surname, from a variant of Urbain, from Latin urbanus. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Orbàn have the most bearers?
- In Belgium, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Orbàn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled orban.
- Where is Orbàn most common?
- Orbàn is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Orbàn?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,980 people named Orbàn in 2008, about 1 in 5.9 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/orb%C3%A0nThe 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, “Orbàn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.