Uribe

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque] (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/uˈɾi.β̞e/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary

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Uribe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Uribe is also written Урибе in Cyrillic.

  • COColombia≈1 in 670(inferred from the name graph)
  • CLChile≈1 in 790
  • MXMexico≈1 in 1.3K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Mexico (inferred from the name graph)

≈100,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
366 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 670 (inferred from the name graph)

Colombia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Uribe in other scripts: Cyrillic

(measured from records)
UribeLatin(measured from records)
УрибеUribe in Cyrillic(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

How to pronounce Uribe

  • Spanish:/uˈɾi.β̞e/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where the surname Uribe is found

(measured from records)

Uribe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Uribe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
MX Mexico#179≈100,000 est.≈1 in 1.3K1.8KUribe219
CO Colombia#103≈79,000 est.≈1 in 67041Uribe185
CL Chile#149≈25,000 est.≈1 in 7921Uribe111
US United States—24,6121 in 14K25KUribe366
PE Peru#437≈12,000 est.≈1 in 2.9K—Uribe84
DO Dominican Republic#244≈4,300 est.≈1 in 2.7K—Uribe42

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Uribe is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Peru

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Ürībę, Üribe, Ürïbë

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Uribé, Úribe

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Peru, Spain

    Also written Uribé

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Egypt

    Languages: Arabic, Maltese

    Also written Urìbe

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Uribe is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Basque, URIBE the meaning of this surname is URI:Town BE:lowland or down part, so the complete meaning is: Group of houses in the down part. Is a common basque surname, and there are a lot of houses with this name in Bizkaia, Gipuzkoa and Araba, with a lot of proves of nobility and a lot of coat of arms

    as a wordBuber's Basque Page — Surname research (Ormaetxea & Ybarra ~2003)

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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1940196019802000Imanol Uribe, b. 1950Álvaro Uribe, b. 1952Mateus Uribe, b. 1991

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).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalEstimado/a Uribe,Dear Uribe, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Uribe,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Uribe mean, and where does it come from?
A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque]. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Uribe?
In Spanish /uˈɾi.β̞e/ (Wiktionary).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Uribe?
Mondonomo estimates about 101 thousand people named Uribe in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled uribe. After it come Colombia, Chile, United States and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Uribe?
In the United States, the national register counted 24,612 people named Uribe in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
How common is Uribe compared with other names?
In Mexico, Uribe is the 179th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Uribe” — ranked 214th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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