Urban

Urban is the 1,851st most common surname in the United States, shared by 19,034 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 15,700.

By the numbers

People: 19,034
Rank: 1,851st
How common: 1 in 15,700
Per 100,000: 6.4

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Urban described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 89.4%
Hispanic or Latino 6.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Urban

Karl Urban (born 1972)New Zealand actor
Keith Urban (born 1967)Australian-American musician
Jan Urban (born 1962)Polish football manager and former player
Ignatz Urban (1848–1931)German botanist
Adolf Urban (1914–1943)German footballer
Knut Urban (born 1941)German physicist
Anton Urban (1934–2021)Slovak soccer player
Stanisław Urban (1907–1940)Polish rower

People named Urban with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Urban

Also a first name

Urban has been given to 3,264 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1924. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.