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Laban Name Meaning
North German: variant of Labahn.Possibly an
altered spelling of Hungarian Labanc, a nickname for a
pro-Austrian soldier who fought against the Hungarians in the
independence wars in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. This
derogatory nickname derived from the Hungarian lobonc ‘unkempt
hair’, referring the long hair of the Habsburg soldiers. Later the
name became a vocabulary word denoting a foot soldier or a rough
strong man. See also Kurucz.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Laban Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Laban families
 10 - 17  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Laban families
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30 - 58 11 - 29 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Laban Family Origin
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Laban Family Occupations
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