Ursin
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: arbutin
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɝsɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ursin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 6.9K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 12K
- DKDenmark1 in 54K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ursin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
805 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
arbutin
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Ursin is read(measured from records)
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 wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French10%
Du latin ursus « ours »; diminutif lié à l’ours.
as a nameDictionnaire 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ursin 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.
805 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup), counting the spelling ursin. 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 — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
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 nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Romanian, URSÍN, -Ă, ursini, -e, adj. (Rar; despre oameni) Lat în spate.
as a wordDEX 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Zacharias Ursinusb. 1534DEnot in their usual nameGerman theologian (1534–1583)
- Nils Abraham af Ursinb. 1785FIFinnish physican, anatomist and university administrator
- G.F. Ursinb. 1797DKDanish astronomer, mathematician and author (1797–1849)
- Clara Ursinb. 1828DKDanish actress and singer (1827–1889)
- Nils Robert af Ursinb. 1854FIFinnish politician (1854-1936)
- Josef Ursinb. 1863ATpolitician
- Johannes Ursinb. 1876DKDanish poet
- Jean Ursinb. 1919FRFrench historian
- Holger Ursinb. 1934NONorwegian physician and psychologist
- Martti Ursinb. 1934FIFinnish teacher, politician, civil servant and business executive
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)
Attested in 30 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Ursin mean, and where does it come from?
- arbutin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ursin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɝsɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ursin have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Ursin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ursinThe 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, “Ursin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.