Urbe
surname · Latin script
Meaning: metropolis; large city
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈuɾ.β̞e/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Urbe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 379K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 1.4M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 379K (inferred from the name graph)
120 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)metropolis; large city
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Urbe is found
(measured from records)Urbe 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 120 | 1 in 379K | 120 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 35 | 1 in 1.4M | 35 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 34M | — | Urbe | 21 |
| PH Philippines | — | — | — | Urbe | 11 |
120 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Urbe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, ablative singular of urbs
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, city (large settlement)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, city
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, ÚRBE s. f. (Livr. și fam.) Oraș.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
In Latvian, Sunim kaklā iekārts zvaniņš vai koka grabeklis
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Nicolas Urbeb. 1867French political activist
- Joxe Inazio Salaberria Urbewriter
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Urbe mean, and where does it come from?
- metropolis; large city Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Urbe?
- In Spanish /ˈuɾ.β̞e/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Urbe?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 120 people named Urbe, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Spain, Switzerland and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Urbe most common?
- Urbe is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 379 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Urbe?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 120 people named Urbe, about 1 in 379 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/urbeThe 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, “Urbe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.