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 Catalan: Urbà Croatian: Urban (hr) Czech: Urban (cs) Dutch: Urbaan Faroese: Urbanus Finnish: Urpo (fi) French: Urbain (fr) Galician: Urbano (gl) m. German: Urban (de) Greek: Ουρβανός Hungarian: Orbán (hu)

Italian: Urbano (it) Latin: Urbanus Polish: Urban (pl) Portuguese: Urban (pt) Romanian: Urban (ro) Russian: Урбан Serbian: Урбан Slovak: Urban (sk) Slovene: Urban (sl) Spanish: Urbano (es) Swedish: Urban (sv) Ukrainian: Урбан

Anagrams

• Buran, unbar

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Czech

Proper noun

Urban m.

1. A Czech surname.

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Slovene

Proper noun

Urban m.

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

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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.