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01 / Meaning & origin
Urs is a masculine given name documented in Spanish, German, Danish and 1 other language. English Wiktionary traces it to Latin Ursus.
From Latin Ursus.
02 / Across borders
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Spain, 2025: 36 male (rank 18758). Documented as a given name in Spanish.
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03 / By the numbers
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2000–2025 Spelling: Urs
Recorded category boys
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Source: Federal Statistical Office · Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 10 | 490 | observed |
| 2001 | 11 | 447 | observed |
| 2002 | 11 | 473 | observed |
| 2003 | 6 | 663 | observed |
| 2004 | 12 | 473 | observed |
| 2005 | 1 | 1,331 | observed |
| 2006 | 4 | 892 | observed |
| 2007 | 7 | 684 | observed |
| 2008 | 2 | 1,242 | observed |
| 2009 | 4 | 978 | observed |
| 2010 | 3 | 1,145 | observed |
| 2011 | 5 | 937 | observed |
| 2012 | 6 | 875 | observed |
| 2013 | 3 | 1,216 | observed |
| 2014 | 2 | 1,445 | observed |
| 2015 | 1 | 1,742 | observed |
| 2016 | 6 | 935 | observed |
| 2017 | 3 | 1,360 | observed |
| 2018 | 3 | 1,378 | observed |
| 2019 | 1 | 1,887 | observed |
| 2020 | 2 | 1,598 | observed |
| 2021 | 2 | 1,684 | observed |
| 2022 | 3 | 1,411 | observed |
| 2023 | 2 | 1,619 | observed |
| 2024 | 2 | 1,634 | observed |
| 2025 | 2 | 1,916 | observed |
Statistics count the spelling “Urs” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)
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06 / Behind the facts
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Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution) · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
