Urban

Where Urban comes from

Latin Urbānus, name of eight early popes, from urbānus (“of the town or city, urbane”). Doublet of Orban.
— Wiktionary's entry for Urban
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1035
    Urban II born
    11th century pope and initiator of the Crusades
  2. 1568
    Urban VIII born
    235 pope of the Catholic Church from 1623 to 1644
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #600 among boys — 10 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1894
    Peak, #419
    20 babies named Urban — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1895
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #872.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Urban II · 11th century pope and initiator of the Crusades, 1035–1099
  • Urban VIII · 235 pope of the Catholic Church from 1623 to 1644, 1568–1644
  • Urban VII · pope of the Catholic Church in September 1590, 1521–1590
  • Urban V · pope of the Catholic Church from 1362 to 1370, 1310–1370
  • Urban III · pope, 1200–1187

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.