Urban

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Usage

Old Swedish Old Swedish
Old Danish Old Danish
Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Short form of Urbanus [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

Urban
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Old Danish Old Swedish Swedish
Urbán
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Sami

See also Ubbe, Upe, Urpo

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Urban
Genitive: Urbans
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Urban
Genitive: Urbanin
Partitive: Urbania
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Urban
Genitive: Urbans
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Urban
Genitive: Urbans

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

25 May

Sweden Sweden

25 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Namesakes

  • Urban Hjärne (20 December 1641 - 10 March 1724), Swedish doctor, author and scientist
  • Urban Hansen (23 October 1908 – 24 July 1986), Danish politician, Lord Mayor of København from 1962 to 1976

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 11196 people were named Urban (percentage of first or only given name: 14 %) [6]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[8]
5340 11211 0 2 5340 11209
Finland Finland[9]
n.a.
175 0 0
n.a.
175
Denmark Denmark[10]
36
n.a.
0
n.a.
36
n.a.
Norway Norway[11]
22
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
22
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Urban.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  7. IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
  8. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  10. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  11. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/