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Urban: what the name means

Urban: from the first name Urban.

In January 2017, 15,412 people in Czechia were named Urban or Urbanová (the women’s form).

Where the name was most common in 2017

Areas are the Interior Ministry’s; numbers under 5 are not shown.

To find the family in the old parish books, you need the village they came from.

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Questions

What does the surname Urban mean?

Urban: from the first name Urban.

How many people are called Urban in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 15,412 people in Czechia were named Urban or Urbanová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Urban most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (2,090), Brno (415), Brandýs nad Labem-Stará Boleslav (328).

Sources

  1. Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: surname counts by area, January 2017 (archived; the ministry no longer publishes them)