# Ban (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/ban/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,011 |
| US rank (2010) | 14,768 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 153,528 people |
| Change since 2000 | +30% (1,546 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Hungarian surname, from Bán. * As a Hungarian and Serbo-Croatian surname, from bán (“governor”), probably related to Avar баян (bajan, “rich man”). * As a Slovene, reduced from Urban. * As a German surname, spelling variant of Bann. * As a Japanese surname, from 坂 (Ban). * As a Korean surname, spelling variant of Pan. * As a Chinese surname, from 班 (Bān).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Ban in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 48% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 4.0% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 42% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Ban in South Korea and China.

## People named Ban

- Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Ban Yong, 2nd-century Han dynasty official and general

## Similar surnames

Bean, Bain, Bayne, Bane, Beane, Baney, Baine, Boan, Bahn, Bano, Banu, Baiano.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.