- Source: Baban (name)
Baban is a surname and a male given name. It is reported that as of 2017 Baban is one of the surnames used in Ağrı, Turkey. It is also stated that it is a combination of a noun, Baba (Turkish: father), and a possessive ending -n in Turkish. In Romanian, the name is spelled Băban and derives from Baba village, Maramureș County.
Notable people with the name are as follows:
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
Baban (disambiguation)