# Urban (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/urban/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | “of the town”, “city”, “urbane” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɜɹbən/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,264 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,264 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Latin Urbānus, name of eight early popes, from urbānus (“of the town or city, urbane”). Doublet of Orban.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 34 | 3,302 |
| 2012 | 34 | 3,293 |
| 2013 | 22 | 4,452 |
| 2014 | 24 | 4,253 |
| 2015 | 36 | 3,222 |
| 2016 | 35 | 3,287 |
| 2017 | 30 | 3,667 |
| 2018 | 27 | 3,984 |
| 2019 | 39 | 3,098 |
| 2020 | 24 | 4,265 |
| 2021 | 30 | 3,732 |
| 2022 | 24 | 4,429 |
| 2023 | 10 | 8,214 |
| 2024 | 16 | 5,879 |
| 2025 | 18 | 5,374 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |

## In other languages

- Armenian: Ուրբանոս
- Bulgarian: Урбан
- Catalan: Urbà
- Czech: Urban
- Dutch: Urbaan
- Finnish: Urpo
- French: Urbain
- German: Urban
- Greek: Ουρβανός
- Hungarian: Orbán
- Italian: Urbano
- Latin: Urbanus
- Lithuanian: Urbonas
- Polish: Urban
- Portuguese: Urbano
- Romanian: Urban
- Russian: Урбан
- Slovak: Urban
- Slovene: Urbàn
- Spanish: Urbano

## People named Urban

- Urban II, 11th century pope and initiator of the Crusades
- Urban VIII, 235 pope of the Catholic Church from 1623 to 1644 (1568–1644)
- Urban Gad, Danish filmmaker (1879-1947)
- Urban Hettich, German Nordic combined skier
- Urban Meyer, American football coach
- Urban of Langres, Gallo-Roman saint and bishop, patron saint of wine growers, gardeners and coopers
- Fuzzy Zoeller, American professional golfer
- Aku Louhimies, Finnish film director and screenwriter (born 1968)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.