Uribe
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque]
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/uribɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Uribe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 923(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 1K
- PEPeru≈1 in 3K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 366 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 923 (inferred from the name graph)
≈53,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, 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)
A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Uribe 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #103 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 923 | 41 | Uribe | 185 |
| US United States | — | 24,612 | 1 in 14K | 25K | Uribe | 366 |
| CL Chile | #149 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 1 | Uribe | 111 |
| PE Peru | #437 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Uribe | 84 |
| VE Venezuela | #441 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Uribe | 63 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #244 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Uribe | 42 |
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: SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
Uribe is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, URIBE the meaning of this surname is URI:Town BE:lowland or down part, so the complete meaning is: Group of houses in the down part. Is a common basque surname, and there are a lot of houses with this name in Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa and Araba, with a lot of proves of nobility and a lot of coat of arms
as a wordBuber's Basque Page — Surname research (Ormaetxea & Ybarra ~2003)
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)
- Rafael Uribe Uribeb. 1859COColombian politician (1859-1914)
- Guillermo Uribe Holguínb. 1880COColombian musician (1880–1971)
- Imanol Uribeb. 1950SVSpanish film director
- Álvaro Uribeb. 1952CO39.º President of Colombia from 2002 to 2010
- José Uribeb. 1959DObaseball player
- Manuel Uribeb. 1965MXthird-heaviest person in history
- Adrián Uribeb. 1972MXMexican actor, comedian and TV host
- Juan Uribeb. 1979DODominican baseball player
- Miguel Uribe Turbayb. 1986COColombian politician (1986–2025)
- Mateus Uribeb. 1991COColombian association football player
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 31 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 25K | #1,448 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 24K | #1,435 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 18K | #1,805 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 41 | #75 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Uribe mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque]. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Uribe?
- A machine transcription gives /uribɛ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Uribe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 53 thousand people named Uribe in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled uribe.
- How common is the name Uribe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 24,612 people named Uribe in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Uribe compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Uribe is the 103rd most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/uribeThe 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, “Uribe” — the 103rd most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.