Urban

Urban is a boy name of Latin origin, meaning Of the city; refined.

What Urban means

Of the city; refined.

Urban sits at 5 letters, and ends on a consonant, which gives it a firmer stop.

Where Urban comes from

Latin names travelled through the Roman world and then through the Church, which is why so many survive across Europe in local variants. A great many were originally descriptive — of virtue, of appearance, or of birth order.

Urban is recorded as Latin in origin. Browse other Latin names.

How popular is Urban?

You will not find Urban in the top 100 boy names at the moment. Plenty of well-known names sit outside the charts; popularity measures how often a name is registered, not how good or how real it is.

The character of Urban

The thread we file Urban under is the long-established classics — worth following if that association is what caught your attention in the first place.

Themes: Classic

Names like Urban

These share Urban's themes, origin, or both — closest first.

• August — Great, venerable, majestic.
• Julian — Youthful; devoted to Jupiter.
• Roman — Citizen of Rome; strong.
• Augustine — Great and venerable.
• Augustus — Great, venerable and majestic.
• Benedict — Blessed.
• Cassian — Of Cassius; an old Roman name.
• Cassius — Hollow; (later) clever.
• Crispin — Curly-haired.
• Fabian — Bean grower.
• Francis — Free one; Frenchman.
• Gaius — To rejoice.

More Latin names

• Trinity — The holy three.
• Ursula — Little bear.
• Titus — Title of honour; a defender.
• Valentina — Strong, healthy, brave.
• Tiberius — Of the Tiber river.
• Valentine — Strong and healthy.
• Temperance — Moderation and restraint.
• Verbena — Sacred bough; the healing herb.
• Sylvia — From the forest.
• Verena — True; honest.