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Given name & surname · also Hungarian

Orban

Orban is a surname with more than one origin. It is used in English, Romanian, and Walloon.

Original HungarianOrbán

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Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Orban has more than one origin: as a Hungarian surname, it comes from Hungarian Orbán; as a Walloon (French) and German surname, it comes from Latin urbānus.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Hungarian Orbán, from Latin Urbānus.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1918. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Orban through the years

Babies since 1880
44
44 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
1921
13 babies
2025
0
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2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
051015192019401960198020002025Highest share 19210.0
Orban in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1918–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1930. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,764 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Orban’s family of names

In Romanian usage, Orban as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Urban. In English usage, Orban as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Hungarian form Orbán. In German usage, Orban as a surname has a related form in Urban.

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OrbanUrbanUrbainOrbán

Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Around the world

Orban has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.

EnglishLatin

3 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.

Each dot marks where a language is rooted, not where people with the name live today. Bigger dots hold more names. Language locations from Glottolog (CC BY 4.0); map from Natural Earth.

Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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