Urwin
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɝwən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Urwin is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Durham; also Northumb. variant spelling of Erwin .
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- NZNew Zealand
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Durham; also Northumb. variant spelling of Erwin .
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Joseph Urwinb. 1909GBEnglish footballer (1909-1976)
- Thomas Urwinb. 1912GBBritish politician (1912-1985)
- Harry Urwinb. 1915British trade unionist
- Graham Urwinb. 1949GBassociation football player (born 1949)
- Lindsay Urwinb. 1956GBBishop of Horsham
- Chris Urwinb. 1991AUAustralian anthropologist
- Jack Urwinb. 1992GBBritish journalist
- Caitlin Urwinb. 2000AUAustralian rugby union player
- Peter Edward UrwinGBresearcher
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 2.4K | #3,136 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 445 | #50,714 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 418 | #50,106 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 407 | #48,665 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 15 | #97,717 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #295,757 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #398,520 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #160,321 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Urwin mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Durham; also Northumb. variant spelling of Erwin . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Urwin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɝwən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Urwin have the most bearers?
- Urwin is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
What do you want to know about Urwin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/urwinThe 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, “Urwin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.