Urban

See also: urban

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Urban (countable and uncountable, plural Urbans)

1. (uncommon) A male given name from Latin
2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
3. An early Christian, also Urbane and Urbanus in various versions of the Bible. (biblical character)
   • 1380s, Wycliffe translation of the Bible, Romans 16:9:

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

Derived terms

• Urbanist

Translations

male given name

• Armenian: Ուրբանոս (Urbanos)
• Asturian: Urbanu m
• Bulgarian: Урбан m (Urban)
• Catalan: Urbà m
• Czech: Urban (cs) m
• Dutch: Urbaan
• Faroese: Urbanus
• Finnish: Urpo (fi)
• French: Urbain (fr) m
• Galician: Urbano (gl) m
• German: Urban m
• Greek: Ουρβανός (el) m (Ourvanós)

  Ancient: Οὐρβανός m (Ourbanós)

• Hungarian: Orbán (hu)
• Italian: Urbano (it) m
• Latin: Urbanus m
• Lithuanian: Urbonas (lt)
• Polish: Urban (pl) m
• Portuguese: Urbano m
• Romanian: Urban m
• Russian: Урбан (ru) m (Urban)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Урбан m

  Roman: Urban m

• Sicilian: Urbanu m
• Slovak: Urban
• Slovene: Urbàn (sl) m
• Spanish: Urbano (es) m
• Swedish: Urban (sv) c
• Ukrainian: Урбан m (Urban)
• Venetian: Urban m
• Vietnamese: Urbanô, Ước Bang

Anagrams

• Braun, Buran, Rabun, aburn, buran, unabr., unbar

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈurban]

Proper noun

Urban m anim (female equivalent Urbanová)

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Urban (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	Urban	Urbané, Urbani
genitive	Urbana	Urbanů
dative	Urbanovi	Urbanům
accusative	Urbana	Urbany
vocative	Urbane	Urbané, Urbani
locative	Urbanovi	Urbanech
instrumental	Urbanem	Urbany

Further reading

• “Urban”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Urbānus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈurban/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -urban
• Syllabification: Ur‧ban

Proper noun

Urban m pers

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Urban
2. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Urban

	singular	plural
nominative	Urban	Urbanowie
genitive	Urbana	Urbanów
dative	Urbanowi	Urbanom
accusative	Urbana	Urbanów
instrumental	Urbanem	Urbanami
locative	Urbanie	Urbanach
vocative	Urbanie	Urbanowie

Proper noun

Urban f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

Further reading

• Urban in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “Urban”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Polish Urban.

Proper noun

Urban m (genitive/dative lui Urban)

1. a surname from Polish

References

• Iordan, Iorgu (1983) Dicționar al numelor de familie românești [A Dictionary of Romanian Family Names]‎^[1], Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈurban]

Proper noun

Urban m pers (genitive singular Urbana, nominative plural Urbanovia, declension pattern of chlap)

1. a male given name

Declension

Declension of Urban

	singular	plural
nominative	Urban	Urbanovia
genitive	Urbana	Urbanov
dative	Urbanovi	Urbanom
accusative	Urbana	Urbanov
locative	Urbanovi	Urbanoch
instrumental	Urbanom	Urbanmi

Further reading

• “Urban”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /urbán/, /urbáːn/

Proper noun

Urbȁn or Urbȃn m anim

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Urban

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nominative	Urbàn
genitive	Urbána
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Urbàn
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Urbána
dative (dajȃlnik)	Urbánu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Urbána
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Urbánu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Urbánom

Further reading

• “Urban”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Proper noun

Urban c (genitive Urbans)

1. a male given name, which peaked in popularity in the 1940s and 1950s. Cognate to Urban

Anagrams

• bruna