Last name: URBAN

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URBAN : This last name is indexed 240,166 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

URBAN : German Polish Czech Slovak Croatian Slovenian Ukrainian Belorussian English French and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic); Hungarian (Urbán): from a personal name Latin Urbanus ‘city dweller’ (a derivative of urbs ‘town city’) borne by a 4th-century Christian saint the patron saint of vines and by seven early popes. As a Jewish surname this is an adoption of the Polish personal name. In North America this surname may also be a shortened form of Slavic patronymics and other derivatives from the name Urban e.g. Polish Urbanczyk and Urbanowicz Slovenian Urbančič (see Urbancic) and Urbanič (see Urbanic).

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