Given name & surname
Ban
“rich man”
Ban is a surname with more than one origin. It is used in English, Romanian, and Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a Hungarian and Serbo-Croatian surname, it goes back to a word meaning “rich man.”
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Where it comes from
As a Hungarian and Serbo-Croatian surname, it comes from Avar баян.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ban’s family of names
In English usage, Ban as a surname has a related form in Pan. In English usage, Ban as a surname has a related form in BANN. In Greek usage, Ban is a transliteration of Μπαν.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ban has relatives in 3 languages.
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Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
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 Ban
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