Given name & surname
Ural
“from the mountains”
Ural is used as a given name and a surname. One Slavic interpretation is “from the mountains.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Slavic interpretation is “from the mountains.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Slavic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1896. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ural through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 407
- 407 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1927
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1970. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 21 in 1927. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 206 as a first name in 2020; 209 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ural’s family of names
Ural has a related form in Urale. Ural has a related form in Urall. Ural has a related form in Uralle.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Ural
- Ural TansykbayevSoviet painter (1904-1974)
- Ural LatypovBelarusian politicianborn 1951
- Ural RakhimovRussian businessmanborn 1961
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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