Urbaez
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/uɾbaes/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Urbaez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Urbáez. This surname is predominantly found in the Dominican Republic.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 5.4K
- UYUruguay1 in 69K
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.
- Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Spanish Urbáez. This surname is predominantly found in the Dominican Republic.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where the surname Urbaez is found
(measured from records)Urbaez 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DO Dominican Republic | #139 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Urbaez | 34 |
| VE Venezuela | #592 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Urbaez | 36 |
| US United States | — | 582 | 1 in 572K | 757 | Urbaez | 149 |
| ES Spain | — | 349 | 1 in 143K | 349 | Urbaez | 52 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 223K | — | Urbaez | 22 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Urbaez | 21 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 49 | 1 in 69K | 49 | — | 3 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)- Joao Urbáezb. 2002ESDominican Republic footballer
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Urbaez mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Urbáez. This surname is predominantly found in the Dominican Republic. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Urbaez?
- In Spanish /uɾbaes/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Urbaez?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.9 thousand people named Urbaez in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled urbaez. After it come Venezuela, United States, Spain and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Urbaez?
- In the United States, the national register counted 582 people named Urbaez in 2010, about 1 in 572 thousand residents.
- How common is Urbaez compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Urbaez is the 139th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Urbaez?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/urbaezThe 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, “Urbaez” — the 139th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.