Urbach

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from one of 6 place names; or from ur 'aurochs'

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈɝbɑk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Urbach is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ILIsrael1 in 6.8Kas אורבך(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 112Kas Auerbach
  • NLNetherlands1 in 171K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Urbach itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,968 named Auerbach, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
178 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 171K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

אורבךHebrew(measured from records)
OrbachLatin(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled אורבך in IL Israel, DE Germany, LB Lebanon, Orbach in US United States, NL Netherlands, אוירבך in BR Brazil and Auerbach in RO Romania.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from one of 6 place names; or from ur 'aurochs'

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Where in the world(measured from records)

Urbach counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Urbach is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2,968as Auerbach1 in 112K3KOrbach178
IL Israel#5541,271as אורבך1 in 6.8K1.3Kאורבך54
RO Romania—≈550 est.≈1 in 39K—Auerbach2
DE Germany—≈330 est.≈1 in 241K—אורבך3
BR Brazil—215as Orbach1 in 985K215אוירבך2
DK Denmark—113as Auerbach1 in 52K113——
NL Netherlands—1011 in 171K101Orbach3
LB Lebanon—≈80 est.≈1 in 69K—אורבך1

2,968 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling auerbach. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Urbach is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, wohl meist Herkunftsname zum Siedlungsnamen Urbach; evtl. auch slaw. Patronym zu Rufname Urbanus; 776 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In German, 6 ON. 1. < hör. 2. < ur "Aueirochs"; eben- so Urbrock, Uhrbrook, Orbig (s. d.)

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Otto Urbach, b. 1871Hinko Urbach, b. 1872Erich Urbach, b. 1893Ephraim Urbach, b. 1912Sarah Selver-Urbach, b. 1923Peter Urbach, b. 1941Lutz Urbach, b. 1966Karina Urbach, b. 1968Eithan Urbach, b. 1977Nafa Urbach, b. 1980

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Urbach,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Urbach
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010990#25,083
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020955#26,847
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000947#24,701
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007101#18,950
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Urbach mean, and where does it come from?
from one of 6 place names; or from ur 'aurochs' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
How do you pronounce Urbach?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɝbɑk/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Urbach have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Auerbach, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Urbach most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Urbach is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 171 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Urbach?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 101 people named Urbach in 2007, about 1 in 171 thousand residents.
How common is Urbach compared with other names?
In Israel, Urbach is the 554th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Urbach” — the 554th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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