Urbina
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/urbina/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Urbina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nicaragua than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Urbina, a habitational surname from Basque.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 144(inferred from the name graph)
- HNHonduras≈1 in 553
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 676
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nicaragua (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 330 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 144 (inferred from the name graph)
≈43,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Borrowed from Spanish Urbina, a habitational surname from Basque.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Urbina 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NI Nicaragua | #10 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 144 | — | Urbina | 54 |
| VE Venezuela | #123 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 676 | — | Urbina | 79 |
| HN Honduras | #69 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 553 | — | Urbina | 60 |
| PE Peru | #276 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Urbina | 92 |
| US United States | — | 15,055 | 1 in 22K | 16K | Urbina | 330 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 6,191 | 1 in 823 | 6.2K | — | 63 |
| SV El Salvador | #228 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Urbina | 41 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Diego de Urbinab. 1516ESSpanish painter (1516-1594)
- Pedro de Urbina y Montoyab. 1585ESSpanish Roman Catholic prelate
- María Lavalle Urbinab. 1908MXMexican politician
- Gladys Zenderb. 1939PEnot in their usual namePeruvian model
- Oscar Urbina Ortegab. 1947COCatholic archbishop
- Eva Ayllónb. 1956PEnot in their usual namePeruvian composer and singer
- Guadalupe Urbinab. 1959CRCosta Rican singer-songwriter
- Roberto Urbinab. 1983COColombiano actor
- Gabriel Suazob. 1997CLnot in their usual nameChilean soccer player
- Leónidas UrbinaVEVenezuelan actor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,260 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 15K | #2,409 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #3,145 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 6.2K | #219 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Urbina mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Urbina, a habitational surname from Basque. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Urbina?
- A machine transcription gives /urbina/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Urbina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 43 thousand people named Urbina in Nicaragua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled urbina.
- How common is the name Urbina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,055 people named Urbina in 2010, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Urbina compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Urbina is the 10th most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/urbinaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Urbina” — the 10th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.