Urbanek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: slaw. Patronym zu Rufname Urbanus; 775 Träger
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/urbanɛk/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Urbanek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 5.9K
- SKSlovakia1 in 9.5K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
6,480 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Urbánek in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia.
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)slaw. Patronym zu Rufname Urbanus; 775 Träger.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Where in the world
(measured from records)Urbanek 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #830 | 6,480 | 1 in 5.9K | 3.3K | Urbanek | 91 |
| CZ Czechia | #292 | 3,636 | 1 in 2.9K | 3.6K | Urbánek | 64 |
| US United States | — | 1,754 | 1 in 190K | 1.8K | Urbanek | 77 |
| SK Slovakia | #863 | 575 | 1 in 9.5K | 575 | Urbánek | 26 |
| BR Brazil | — | 283 | 1 in 748K | 283 | Urbanek | 30 |
| HR Croatia | — | 58 | 1 in 73K | 59 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 19 | 1 in 111K | 19 | — | — |
6,480 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)- Julius Urbanekb. 1881ATAustrian mechanical engineer, university teacher and rector (1881-1949)
- Kurt Urbanekb. 1884DEGerman jurist (1884–1973)
- Walther Urbanekb. 1899ATAustrian writer (1899-1975)
- János Urbanekb. 1905HUHungarian mechanical engineer (1905-1971)
- Johann Urbanekb. 1910ATAustrian footballer (1910-2000)
- Jim Urbanekb. 1945USAmerican football player (1945-2009)
- Dorota Urbanekb. 1961PLPolish linguist
- André Urbanekb. 1964FRcyclist
- Robert Urbanekb. 1987PLPolish discus thrower
- Catherine Urbanekb. 2000USactress
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.3K | #717 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.2K | #745 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,407 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,691 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,448 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 283 | #27,768 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 59 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 58 | #11,963 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 31 | #40,726 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 31 | #13,056 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- How do you pronounce Urbanek?
- In Polish /urbanɛk/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Urbanek mean?
- Recorded meaning: slaw. Patronym zu Rufname Urbanus; 775 Träger.
- In which country does Urbanek have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 6.5 thousand people named Urbanek, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled urbanek.
- Where is Urbanek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Urbanek is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 2.9 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Urbanek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 6,480 people named Urbanek in 2026, about 1 in 5.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Urbanek compared with other names?
- In Poland, Urbanek is the 830th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Urbanek?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/urbanekThe 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, “Urbanek” — the 830th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.