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Urania

Girls' name

Form of Ourania

Urania has been given to 213 babies in the U.S. since 1891. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1926, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Urania, 2023

1 in 663,000

Urania over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Urania: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ourania

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Urania means

Urania is a form of Ourania.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Urania is used in Greek Mythology (Latinized).

Another recorded pronunciation is /jʊ.ˈɹeɪ.ni.ə/ for Urania.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Urania → Ourania. The family’s meaning is “heavenly”, recorded in the naming reference for Ourania.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ourania.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 213 girls were recorded with the name Urania between 1891 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1926; its best national rank was #1,524 in 1891.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Urania?

Urania had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Urania sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Urania. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Uranias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Urania was born before 1972 — so the typical Urania is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
30.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
148
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (65).

Is Urania rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1926 (10)
Years since peak
99
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,524
1891

Spellings of Urania

Urania is not the most common spelling — Tania is, with 27.6% against Urania's 0.20%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Urania around the world

Where Urania ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1962–1968
    #679
    in 1968

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Urania by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,524
1891
Peak year
1926
10 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
213
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Urania

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

VanniaElaniaEvaniaAdoniaAzaniaDanniaRoniaZyniaWaniaKseniaAleniaYaseniaIdaniaLeniaZenniaIvaniaMalaniaIvanniaHanniaAlaniaTasniaIraniaOuraniaBetania

Sibling names for Urania

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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