Balabán Surname

887,624th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 303 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Czechia
Highest density in:
Czechia

Balabán Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Balabán Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Czechia2171:49,0028,205
Hungary741:132,65212,253
Slovakia121:444,70454,815

The alternate forms: Balaban (44,472) & Bălăban (8) are calculated separately.

Balabán Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Balabán Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Balabán is borne by more people in Czechia than any other country or territory. It can also appear in the variant forms: Balaban or Bălăban. For other possible spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Balabán? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 887,624th most frequent last name at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 24,051,307 people. The last name is predominantly found in Europe, where 100 percent of Balabán reside; 100 percent reside in Eastern Europe and 76 percent reside in West Slavic Europe.

The surname Balabán is most prevalent in Czechia, where it is carried by 217 people, or 1 in 49,002. In Czechia it is primarily concentrated in: South Moravian Region, where 35 percent are found, Central Bohemian Region, where 16 percent are found and Prague, where 14 percent are found. Besides Czechia this last name exists in 2 countries. It also occurs in Hungary, where 24 percent are found and Slovakia, where 4 percent are found.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Balabán
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