Urs
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: genitive singular of Ur
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʊɐs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Urs is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common given name.
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 409(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 21K
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Urs itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 182 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 409 (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland, 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)
The anniversary of the death of a Sufi saint, celebrated with music and ritual.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Urs is read(measured from records)
Urs is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German53%
genitive singular of Ur
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
The anniversary of the death of a Sufi saint, celebrated with music and ritual.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Chinese8.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Urs in Chinese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Urs 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #9 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 409 | 26 | Urs | 176 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 1 | Urs | 150 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,173as Jur | 1 in 15K | 1.2K | Urs | 19 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Urs | 22 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 468K | — | Urs | 10 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 27 | Urs | 31 |
| US United States | — | 219 | 1 in 1.5M | 1K | Urs | 182 |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the de-leipzig-vornamen register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Urs is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Swiss: masculine equivalent of URSULA.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
German (esp. Swiss): vernacular form of the Latin name Ursus ‘bear’. Victor and Ursus were two soldiers of the Theban legion who were martyred in 286 and are particularly venerated in Switzerland.
as a word
In enm, alternative form of oures (“ours”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, indefinite genitive singular of ur
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Urs Grafb. 1485CHSwiss Renaissance painter and printmaker (1485-1528)
- Hans Urs von Balthasarb. 1905CHSwiss Catholic theologian (1905–1988)
- Urs Widmerb. 1938CHSwiss novelist, playwright (1938–2014)
- Urs Odermattb. 1955CHSwiss author, film and stage director
- Urs Eggerb. 1955CHSwiss director
- Urs Meierb. 1959CHSwiss football referee
- Urs Fischerb. 1966CHSwiss association football player and manager
- Urs Bühlerb. 1971CHSwiss singer
- Urs Fischerb. 1973CHSwiss installation artist (born 1973)
- Urs Rechnb. 1978DEGerman actor
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 217 | #36,303 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2023 | 27 | #1,753 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 10 | #17,921 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 7 | #35,090 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #36,303 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2023 | 1 | #3,357 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Leipzig Open Data — Vornamensstatistik Neugeborene | 2023 | 1 | #1 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2012 | 1 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2024 | — | — |
| DE Germany | DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen (2007) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Urs come from?
- The anniversary of the death of a Sufi saint, celebrated with music and ritual. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Urs?
- A machine transcription gives /ʊɐs/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Urs mean?
- In German, genitive singular of Ur
- Is Urs a male or female name?
- Urs 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.
- What are other forms of the name Urs?
- In the etymology graph, Ursus is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Urs have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Urs in Switzerland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled urs.
- How common is the name Urs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 219 people named Urs in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
- How common is Urs compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Urs is the 9th most common given name of 38,907 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Urs?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ursThe 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, “Urs” — the 9th most common given name in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.