Given name & surname
Urs
“bear”
Urs is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “bear.”
Original LatinUrsus
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “bear.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
Urs’s family of names
In German usage, Urs has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Orsino. In German usage, Urs has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form ORSO. Urs has a related form in Ursus.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Urs has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Urs comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
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.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Urs
- Urs WidmerSwiss novelist, playwright (1938–2014)
- Urs BühlerSwiss singerborn 1971
- Urs MeierSwiss football refereeborn 1959
- Urs FischerSwiss association football player and managerborn 1966
- Urs Zimmermannroad bicycle racerborn 1959
- Urs GrafSwiss Renaissance painter and printmaker (1485-1528)
- Urs FreulerSwiss cyclistborn 1958
- Urs Kälinalpine skierborn 1966
- Urs Salzmannbobsledderborn 1954
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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