Urie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Ayrshire surname recorded from 1260 with Adam Urri; possibly from Urie in Kincardineshire, perhaps Gaelic iumhar ‘yew’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈjɝi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Urie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 23M(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 233K
- USUnited States1 in 305K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- 1 in 233K (inferred from the name graph)
1,092 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ayrshire surname recorded from 1260 with Adam Urri; possibly from Urie in Kincardineshire, perhaps Gaelic iumhar ‘yew’.
Sources 1
- Scottish Surnames
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Urie 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,092 | 1 in 305K | 1.1K | Urie | 35 |
| CZ Czechia | 46 | 1 in 233K | 46 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 4 | 1 in 1.4M | 4 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 23M | 101 | Urie | 137 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 3 |
1,092 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Urie 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, Se encuentra, sin trad., en Izt C 224, en una lista de palabras relacionadas con el pastoreo
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Robert Urieb. 1854GBScottish locomotive engineer (1854–1937)
- Joseph Urieb. 1947GBBritish painter (born 1947)
- Peter Urieb. 1955DEGerman bishop (1955-2005)
- Tom Urieb. 1969GBScottish actor and musician
- Philippe Urieb. 1971FRFrench basketball player (born 1971)
- Michael Urieb. 1980USAmerican actor (born 1980)
- Brendon Urieb. 1987USAmerican singer and musician
- Steve UrieUSAmerican politician
- Robert Urieperson associated with the witch trials in Scotland
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 24 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,315 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,783 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #24,804 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 128 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 108 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 101 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 87 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 77 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 63 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 48 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 46 | #31,049 |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Urie mean, and where does it come from?
- Ayrshire surname recorded from 1260 with Adam Urri; possibly from Urie in Kincardineshire, perhaps Gaelic iumhar ‘yew’. Recorded by Scottish Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Urie?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈjɝi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Urie have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Urie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled urie.
- Where is Urie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Urie is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 233 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Urie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,092 people named Urie in 2010, about 1 in 305 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/urieThe 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, “Urie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.