Baban (name)
Baban is a surname and a male given name that could originate from Turkey,[1] or Romania, and is also the common latinized translation from Arabic, of Kurdish or Iraqi origin.
As of 2017, it was reported to be used in Ağrı, Turkey[1] It is also stated that it is a combination of a noun, Baba (Turkish: father), and a possessive ending -n in Turkish.[1]
In Romanian, it forms the masculine counterpart of the term bábă (Romanian: old woman),[2] spelled Băban, also meaning grand, or big,[3]or descending from villages sharing its name, such as Baba, Maramureș County.[4]
Notable people with the name are as follows:
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Surname
- Ahmad Mukhtar Baban (1900–1976), prime minister of Iraq
- Ali Baban, Iraqi minister
- Breda Baban (1952–2012), Serbian filmmaker and artist
- Cihad Baban (1911–1984), Turkish journalist and parliamentary deputy
- Gracián Babán (1620–1675), Spanish composer
- Jamal Baban (1893–1965), Iraqi lawyer and politician
- Jean-Pierre Mbereke-Baban (born 1959), Cameroonian boxer
- József Babán (born 1935), Hungarian ice hockey player
- Marcel Băban (born 1968), Romanian football player
- Marian Băban (born 1976), Romanian sprint canoer
- Serwan Baban (born 1958), Kurdish professor and minister
- Taha Baban, Kurdish writer and artist
Given name
- Baban Daware (born 1931), Indian wrestler
- Baban Singh, Nepali politician
See also
References
- ^ a b c Mehrali Calp (August 2017). "Ağrı ilinde kullanılan soyadları üzerine dilbilimsel bir çalışma". International Journal of Education, Science and Technology: 67.
- ^ "baba DEX - ce înseamnă baba". www.dictionarroman.ro. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ^ "baban DEX - ce înseamnă baban". www.dictionarroman.ro. Retrieved 5 September 2025.
- ^ Dorin Ștef, Dicţionar etimologic al localităților din judeţul Maramureş, p. 85. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Casa Cărții de Știință, 2023, ISBN 978-606-17-2127-6