Haban Family History
Haban Name Meaning
Czech and Slovak (mainly Habán and Habáň): nickname or status name from habán denoting a member of an Anabaptist group of German origin living in southern Moravia and southwestern Slovakia in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is derived from the German dialect word Habaner for German Hafner ‘potter’. Czech (mainly Habán and Habáň): nickname for an unusually tall person from habán ‘beanpole’. Filipino: from Tagalog haban ‘purple’ often associated with the fine color of ube ‘purple yam’; probably a metonymic occupational name for a grower of purple yam.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022