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