Urpo
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/urpo̞/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Urpo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the Latin saint's name Urbanus. Cognate to English Urban.
- FIFinland1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 112K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
1,991 people
recorded for this name
Community-sourced
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Урпо in FI Finland.
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)
From the Latin saint's name Urbanus. Cognate to English Urban.
Sources 3
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Urpo 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.
1,991 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register), counting the spelling urpo. 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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)
Urpo is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Basque, ‘pile of dung’
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
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)
- Urpo Kuuskoskib. 1905FIFinnish writer (1905-1982)
- Urpo Harvab. 1910FIFinnish philosopher
- Urpo Wainiob. 1910FIFinnish painter (1910–1975)
- Urpo Laurib. 1919FIFinnish director, dramaturge and translator
- Urpo Korhonenb. 1923FIFinnish cross-country skier (1923-2009)
- Urpo Ylönenb. 1943FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Urpo Leppänenb. 1944FIFinnish politician (1944-2010)
- Urpo Kangasb. 1951FIFinnish jurist
- Upi Sorvalib. 1952FInot in their usual nameFinnish drummer, composer and producer
- Urpo Sivulab. 1988FIFinnish volleyball player
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 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 5.2K | #300 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 1999 | 141 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | 136 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2000 | 136 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 132 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 129 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 128 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 126 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 123 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 123 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 119 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Urpo mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Latin saint's name Urbanus. Cognate to English Urban. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names and 1 other source.
- What are other forms of the name Urpo?
- In the etymology graph, Panu is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Urpo?
- A machine transcription gives /urpo̞/ (IPA) for Finnish.
- Is Urpo a male or female name?
- Urpo 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.
- In which country does Urpo have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Urpo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled урпо.
- Where is Urpo most common?
- Urpo is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Urpo?
- In Finland, the national register counted 1,991 people named Urpo, about 1 in 2.8 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/urpoThe 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, “Urpo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.