Ursin

Locally spelled Урсин in FI Finland, BY Belarus.

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.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Ursin is one spelling over 2 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.

• English71%

  arbutin

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• French10%

  Du latin ursus « ours »; diminutif lié à l’ours.

  as a name·Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Ursin is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, männl. Vom. lateinischen Ursprungs, der auf den römischen Beinamen Ursinus, eine AbleitungvonUrsus (

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• In Romanian, URSÍN, -Ă, ursini, -e, adj. (Rar; despre oameni) Lat în spate.

  as a word·DEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology

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.

• Zacharias Ursinusb. 1534DEnot in their usual nameGerman theologian (1534–1583)
• G.F. Ursinb. 1797DKDanish astronomer, mathematician and author (1797–1849)
• Nils Robert af Ursinb. 1854FIFinnish politician (1854-1936)

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).

30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Ursin mean, and where does it come from?

arbutin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

Which countries have the most people with the surname Ursin?

In Finland, the national register counted about 805 people named Ursin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled урсин. After it come United States, Norway, Denmark and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Ursin most common?

Ursin is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.9 thousand people carrying it.

How common is the name Ursin?

In Finland, the national register counted 805 people named Ursin, about 1 in 6.9 thousand residents.