Given name & surname
Urian
“sent from heaven”
Urian is used as a given name and a surname. One Greek interpretation is “sent from heaven.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “sent from heaven.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Urian through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 289
- 289 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 15 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 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 15 in 1993. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 283 as a first name in 2020; 243 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.
Urian’s family of names
Urian has a related form in Uriann. Urian has a related form in Urianne. Urian has a related form in Uryan.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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