Urs
given name · German · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Urs is a given name, most frequently recorded in Switzerland, where it is the 11th most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: The anniversary of the death of a Sufi saint, celebrated with music and ritual.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 282◐
- DEGermany1 in 20K
- UAUkraine1 in 34K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.9K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 163 ●
- 1 in 15K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
35K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Юр in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
The anniversary of the death of a Sufi saint, celebrated with music and ritual.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #11 | 27,732 | 9.8K rec. | — | 26 | Urs | 152 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 9,238 | 11K rec. | — | — | Юр | 27 |
| DE Germany | — | 5,948 | 5.1K rec. | — | 1 | Urs | 145 |
| RU Russia | — | 3,292 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Юр | 96 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,173△ | 80 rec. | 1 in 15K | 1.2K | Urs | 21 |
| AU Australia | — | 425 | 486 rec. | — | — | Urs | 52 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 336 | 349 rec. | — | listed | Urs | 28 |
| AT Austria | — | 299 | 132 rec. | — | 27 | Urs | 33 |
| SE Sweden | — | 234△ | 10 rec. | 1 in 44K | 234 | — | 10 |
| US United States | — | 217 | 4.4K rec. | 1 in 1.5M | 1K | Urs | 163 |
| CA Canada | — | 197 | 209 rec. | — | — | Urs | 39 |
| AR Argentina | — | 171 | 76 rec. | — | 46 | Urs | 15 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- German24K47%
- English5.2K10%
- Chinese4.2K8%
- Portuguese2.4K5%
- Spanish1.9K4%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 24,241 | 47% |
| English | 5,186 | 10% |
| Chinese | 4,159 | 8% |
| Portuguese | 2,445 | 5% |
| Spanish | 1,937 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Urs is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, genitive singular of Ur
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Swiss: masculine equivalent of URSULA.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
German (esp. Swiss): vernacular form of the Latin name Ursus ‘bear’. Victor and Ursus were two soldiers of the Theban legion who were martyred in 286 and are particularly venerated in Switzerland.
as a word
In enm, alternative form of oures (“ours”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, indefinite genitive singular of ur
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 12 |
| 2001 | 13 |
| 2002 | 13 |
| 2003 | 14 |
| 2004 | 16 |
| 2005 | 18 |
| 2006 | 19 |
| 2007 | 18 |
| 2008 | 18 |
| 2009 | 19 |
| 2010 | 17 |
| 2011 | 20 |
| 2012 | 21 |
| 2013 | 21 |
| 2014 | 20 |
| 2015 | 20 |
| 2016 | 20 |
| 2017 | 20 |
| 2018 | 20 |
| 2019 | 21 |
| 2020 | 21 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Urs Grafb. 1485CHSwiss Renaissance painter and printmaker (1485-1528)
- Hans Urs von Balthasarb. 1905CHSwiss Catholic theologian (1905–1988)
- Urs Widmerb. 1938CHSwiss novelist, playwright (1938–2014)
- Urs Odermattb. 1955CHSwiss author, film and stage director
- Urs Eggerb. 1955CHSwiss director
- Urs Meierb. 1959CHSwiss football referee
- Urs Fischerb. 1966CHSwiss association football player and manager
- Urs Bühlerb. 1971CHSwiss singer
- Urs Fischerb. 1973CHSwiss installation artist (born 1973)
- Urs Rechnb. 1978DEGerman actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 49 sources across 27 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 169 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Urs?
- We estimate roughly 1.9 thousand people bear Urs (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Urs have the most bearers?
- Urs is most frequently recorded in Switzerland, where it is most often spelled urs.
- How common is Urs compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Urs is the 11th most common given name of 33,890 given names recorded there.
- Is Urs a male or female name?
- Urs is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Urs mean?
- Recorded meaning: The anniversary of the death of a Sufi saint, celebrated with music and ritual.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Urs” — the 11th most common given name in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.