Urey
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Harold C, US physical chemist (Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Grenada, 2025
/uɾei/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Urey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bolivia than in any other country.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 7.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 10Kfew records
- GDGrenada1 in 113K
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.
- Bolivia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Urey
- Spanish:/uɾei/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Turkish:/uɾej/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Harold C, US physical chemist
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Urey is found
(measured from records)Urey 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BO Bolivia | #615 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Urey | 30 |
| NI Nicaragua | #447 | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | — | Urey | 11 |
| US United States | — | 781 | 1 in 426K | 781 | Urey | 188 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 357K | — | Urey | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 295K | 119 | Urey | 52 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | Urey | 1 |
| LR Liberia | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Urey | 7 |
| GD Grenada | — | 1 | 1 in 113K | 1 | — | 1 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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)- Daniel Salamanca Ureyb. 1869BOPresident of Bolivia (1863-1935)
- Harold Clayton Ureyb. 1893USAmerican physical chemist (1893-1981)
- Telia UreyLRLiberian business executive, philanthropist and politician
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Urey mean, and where does it come from?
- Harold C, US physical chemist Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Urey?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /uɾei/; in Turkish /uɾej/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Urey?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Urey in Bolivia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled urey. After it come Nicaragua, United States, Türkiye and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Urey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 781 people named Urey in 2010, about 1 in 426 thousand residents.
- How common is Urey compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Urey is the 615th most common surname of 29,432 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ureyThe 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, “Urey” — the 615th most common surname in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.