The Orban surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,485 people carried this name — #18,572 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 200,000 people counted. That is down 8% from 1,621 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Orban surname
Borrowed from Latin Urbānus, from urbānus (“of or belonging to a city”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Orbán» (Hungarian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 1,517 people named Orban live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Liège.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 360 people named Orban.
41 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 36 départements, most often Marne.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 88 people named Orban live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Chaco.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
79 people named Orban live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
81 people named Orban is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Orban in American newspapers,
1921.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.
Who carried it
People named Orban,
with a public archive behind them.
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Walthère Frère-Orban 1812–1896 · lawyer -
Alexis Jules Theodore Orban 1850–1917 · cleric -
Ferdinand Orban 1655–1732 · mathematician
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Alfred Orban 1857–1932 · chief officer
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Victor Orban 1868–1946 · writer
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Max Orban 1881–1969 · rower
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Orban.
- Oppenheim 1,795 · U.S. census
- Oppermann 727 · U.S. census
- Orabona 195 · U.S. census
- Oran 476 · U.S. census
- Orand 348 · U.S. census
- Orange 4,350 · U.S. census
- Ordas 252 · U.S. census
- Ordonez 18,498 · U.S. census
- Orduna 2,435 · U.S. census
- Ore 1,862 · U.S. census
- Orefice 709 · U.S. census
- Orel 349 · U.S. census
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