Given name & surname · also Turkish
Şaban
Şaban is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in Turkish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Şaban comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish شعبان (şaban), from Arabic شَعْبَان; its root is Arabic ش ع ب.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Şaban’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Şaban
- Şaban ÖzdoğanDanish footballerborn 1990
- Shaban Sulithird ruler of the Dulkadirids
- Teoman DuralıTurkish philosopher (1947–2021)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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