Çaban
surname · Latin script
Çaban is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 5,974 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From czaban ("shepherd", "large ox", "large ram") or caban ("merchant", "peddler").
- PLPoland1 in 10K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 56K
- UYUruguay1 in 85K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Çaban itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10.0K (inferred from the name graph)
5,974 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Caban in US United States.
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)From czaban ("shepherd", "large ox", "large ram") or caban ("merchant", "peddler").
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Çaban is found
(measured from records)Çaban 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.
5,974 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021). 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 Çaban mean, and where does it come from?
- From czaban ("shepherd", "large ox", "large ram") or caban ("merchant", "peddler"). Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Çaban?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.0 thousand people named Çaban, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caban. After it come Poland, Argentina, Türkiye and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Çaban most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Çaban is densest in Poland — about 1 in 10.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Çaban?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,974 people named Çaban in 2010, about 1 in 56 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Çaban?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A7abanThe 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, “Çaban” — ranked 5783rd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.