Urban

See also urban

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Urban

1. A male given name, rather rare in English.
2. A patronymic surname​.
3. (biblical) An early Christian, also Urbane and Urbanus in various versions of the Bible.
   • 1380s Wycliffe translation of the Bible: Romans 16:9:

     Grete wel Vrban, oure helpere in Crist Jhesus, and Stacchen, my derlyng.

Translations

male given name

• Bulgarian: Урбан (bg) (Urban)
• Catalan: Urbà (ca)
• Czech: Urban (cs)
• Dutch: Urbaan (nl)
• Faroese: Urbanus (fo)
• Finnish: Urpo (fi)
• French: Urbain (fr)
• Galician: Urbano (gl) m
• German: Urban (de)
• Greek: Ουρβανός (el) (Ourvanós)
• Hungarian: Orbán (hu)
• Italian: Urbano (it)
• Latin: Urbanus (la)

• Polish: Urban (pl)
• Portuguese: Urban (pt)
• Romanian: Urban (ro)
• Russian: Урбан (ru) (Urban)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Урбан (sh)

  Roman: Urban (sh)

• Slovak: Urban (sk)
• Slovene: Urbàn (sl) m
• Spanish: Urbano (es)
• Swedish: Urban (sv)
• Ukrainian: Урбан (uk) (Urban)

Anagrams

• Buran, unbar

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Czech

Proper noun

Urban m

1. A Czech surname.

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA: /urˈbán/, /urˈbáːn/
• Tonal: urbȁn, urbȃn

Proper noun

Urbàn m anim.

1. A male given name, cognate to English Urban.

Declension

Declension of Urban (masculine animate, hard)

	singular
nominative	Urban
accusative	Urbana
genitive	Urbana
dative	Urbanu
locative	Urbanu
instrumental	Urbanom

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Swedish

Proper noun

Urban

1. A male given name,with the latest popularity peak in the 1940s and the 1950s. Cognate to English Urban.