Ur

loc · Latin script

Meaning: ancient Sumerian city

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ur is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • TNTunisia≈1 in 36K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 1.6K
  • BDBangladesh≈1 in 12K

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.

Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈140,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
163 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Pakistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

UrLatin(measured from records)
উরBengali(measured from records)

Locally spelled উর in BD Bangladesh.

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.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

ancient Sumerian city

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ur 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 Ur is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan≈140,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Ur133
BD Bangladesh≈14,000 est.≈1 in 12K—উর64
SA Saudi Arabia≈2,400 est.≈1 in 14K—Ur47
EG Egypt≈880 est.≈1 in 119K—Ur22
DZ Algeria≈560 est.≈1 in 76K—Ur5
TN Tunisia≈320 est.≈1 in 36K—Ur5
NO Norway2361 in 23K236—15

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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Ur is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Ür, Úr, U-R, ̆ur

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Ûŕ, Ûř, Ûr

  • Malay name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Úř, Űŕ, Ûr, Ûř, Úr

  • German given name69 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, Ukraine, Germany, United States

    Languages: German, Ukrainian, English

    Also written Urs, Юр, Ур, Юрс, Урс

  • Khmer surname17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Cambodia

    Also written Ŭȓ, Ųȓ, Ūȓ, Ůȓ, Ūȓូ

58 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)

Ur 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, from ahd. ür 'aurochs'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In trk-pro, growth, excrescence

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In ko-pro, clan, relatives

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In nds (Germany), Mecklenburgisch and Western Pomeranian form of Or (“ear”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In enm, alternative form of oure (“our”)

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19401950196019701980Rose-Marie Ur, b. 1946Ur Apalategi, b. 1972Ur Jaddou, b. 1974

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(measured from records)

Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Ur
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—236#6,630

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ur mean, and where does it come from?
ancient Sumerian city Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
In which country does Ur have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 145 thousand people named Ur in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ur.
How common is the name Ur?
In Norway, the national register counted 236 people named Ur, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.

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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, “Ur”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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