Given name & surname
Urbano
“city-dweller”·“from the city”
Urbano is a variant of Urban. Interpretations include “city-dweller” (Latin) and “from the city” (Latin). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Urbano is a variant of Urban. Interpretations include “city-dweller” (Latin) and “from the city” (Latin). These may reflect different naming traditions.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Urbano is a variant of Urban. An origin associated with Urban is Latin.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1910. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Urbano through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 764
- 764 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 20 in 1994. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,127 as a first name in 2020; 4,295 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.
Urbano’s family of names
Urbano has a related form in Urban. In Portuguese usage, Urbano has a conventional equivalent in the English form Urban.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Urbano
- Urbano RattazziItalian politician (1808–1873)
- Urbano Navarrete CortésCatholic cardinal (1920-2010)
- Urbano OrtegaSpanish football player/managerborn 1961
- Urbano RiveraUruguayan footballer1926–2002
- Urbano Tavares RodriguesPortuguese politician (1923–2013)
- Urbano BarberiniItalian actorborn 1961
- Urbano Santos da Costa AraújoBrazilian jurist, prosecutor and politician (1859-1922)
- Urbano CairoItalian businessmanborn 1957
- Urbano MontiItalian cartographer and geographer (1544-1613)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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