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ban Name Meaning and History

  1. Hungarian (Bán): from the old Hungarian personal name Bán.
  2. Hungarian, Serbian, and Croatian: from Slavic ban or Hungarian bán ‘governor’ (from Avar bajan ‘rich’, ‘rich man’), historically a status name for a regional military or administrative leader (for example the governor of Croatia in the Habsburg Empire).
  3. Slovenian: probably from a reduced form of the personal name Urban.
  4. German: variant spelling of Bann.
  5. Japanese: ‘comrade’. This name is found mostly in eastern Japan. Some families pronounce the same character as Tomo.
  6. Chinese : according to legend, during the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 bc), a noble of the state of Chu was raised and suckled by a tiger. This tiger’s skin bore markings that resembled the character for Ban, and his descendants adopted this character, which may also mean ‘team’, ‘class’, ‘group’ as their surname.
  7. Korean: variant of Pan.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of ban Families in the US in 1920
Number of ban families
 24-45
 9-23		 1-8
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Ban, Klobuchar/Klobucar guerreka 0
Death of Mr. Mate Ban in China davwayell 0
josephine Ban antonia 2
james ban from bravo easnoddy_1 0
Sam BAN d. 30 April 1955 - Lake Lotawana, MO JohnWOBrien 1
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Ban in Poland luszpinski 0
freind Alaa Ibrahim Ismail Alaa Ibrahim Ismail 0
freind Alaa Ibrahim Ismail Ban Sami Wali Alhindawi 0
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