Urson

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Urson is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Poland. Recorded meaning: A species of New World porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum.

Poland (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
4 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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 species of New World porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

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

Where Urson is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland—15—4
ID Indonesia—listed——
EE Estonia—listed——
FR France—listed——

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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the id-github-names register; the ee-siseministeerium-registry register; the french-names-benoist-2009 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Urson is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hebrew surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written אורסון, Orson

12 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Urson is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Esperanto, accusative singular of urso

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, urson (Erethizon dorsatum)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Romanian, URSÓN, (2) ursoane, s. n. 1. Țesătură care imită blana de urs. 2. Palton, haină confecționată din urson (1).

    as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

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)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Urson
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EE EstoniaSiseministeerium — population register name list 20232023——
ID IndonesiaKPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub)———
FR FranceDictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009)———

Reference works 2

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 Urson mean, and where does it come from?
A species of New World porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Urson a male or female name?
Urson is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Urson have the most bearers?
Urson is most frequently recorded in Poland.

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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, “Urson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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