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Also Gascon, Provençal and Languedocian: https://ieo-oc.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=290 --- Source: Institut d'Estudis Occitans
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Also Estonian (albeit archaic): https://www.stat.ee/public/apps/nimed/
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Also Czech (albeit rare to the point of becoming archaic): https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban
https://krestnijmeno.prijmeni.cz/search.php?name=Urban&t=1
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https://krestnijmeno.prijmeni.cz/search.php?name=Urban&t=1
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Also Slovak: https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_(prv%C3%A9_meno)
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My husband's last name is Urban. His great grandparents came to the US from Czechoslovakia to LaGrange, Texas. He is full blooded Czech. This area (central Texas) was settled by both Germans and Czechs. Urban is a fairly common Czech surname.
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The name Urban was given to 36 boys born in the US in 2015.
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Urban is also the form of Urbanus in the following countries:
- Bulgaria, where it is spelled as Урбан
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Macedonia, where it is spelled as Урбан
- Romania
- Russia, where it is spelled as Урбан
- Slovakia
- Ukraine, where it is spelled as Урбан
Also, in reply to the earlier comment that claims that Urban is solely a surname in the Czech Republic: that is not true. Perhaps it is virtually unused in this day and age, but as a surname it is patronymic, meaning that bearers are descended from someone who carried Urban as a first name. Apart from that, all eight popes that were named Urbanus are typically referred to as Urban in Czech, so Urban really is used as a first name in the Czech Republic. Perhaps an archaic first name, but it's incorrect to say that the name has only ever existed as a surname in the Czech Republic.
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- Bulgaria, where it is spelled as Урбан
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Macedonia, where it is spelled as Урбан
- Romania
- Russia, where it is spelled as Урбан
- Slovakia
- Ukraine, where it is spelled as Урбан
Also, in reply to the earlier comment that claims that Urban is solely a surname in the Czech Republic: that is not true. Perhaps it is virtually unused in this day and age, but as a surname it is patronymic, meaning that bearers are descended from someone who carried Urban as a first name. Apart from that, all eight popes that were named Urbanus are typically referred to as Urban in Czech, so Urban really is used as a first name in the Czech Republic. Perhaps an archaic first name, but it's incorrect to say that the name has only ever existed as a surname in the Czech Republic.
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In Sweden "ropa på Urban" (call for Urban) is sometimes used as a slang phrase for barfing, because it's said to sound like "uuuuurrbbb'nnn". :)
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Urban is a Czech surname, not a given name. [noted -ed]
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Source: "Vornamen in der Schweiz. Prénoms en Suisse. I nomi in Svizzera. Prenoms in Svizra" (1993) published by the Association of Swiss registrars.
Https://www.kulturarchiv.ch/fileadmin/pdf/Neues_von_den_Zuckerbaeckern_aus_Graubuenden.pdf