Urbain

Boys' name

Form of Urbanus

Urbain has been given to 57 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1924, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Urbain, 1928

1 in 323,000

Urbain over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Urbain: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Urbanus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Urbain means

Urbain is a form of Urbanus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Urbain is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /yʁ.bɛ̃/ for Urbain.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Urbain → Urbanus. The family’s meaning is “urbane; related to the city”, recorded in Latin with the source elements urbānus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Urbanus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 57 boys were recorded with the name Urbain between 1914 and 1928. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1924; its best national rank was #2,893 in 1914.

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.

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How common is Urbain?

Urbain had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1928, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1928: 1 in 323,000; 7 of 2,260,857 births
Among boys only: 1 in 158,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1928: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 223,874 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Urbain sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1928 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 223,874 children born in 1928 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Urbain. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Urbains were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Urbain was born before 1922 — so the typical Urbain is around 103 today.

Median birth year: 1922; About 103 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 75.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 75.4% of all recorded uses (43).

Is Urbain 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1924 (8)
Years since peak: 101; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 14.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,893; 1914

Spellings of Urbain

Urbain is not the most common spelling — Brain is, with 46.6% against Urbain's 0.58%.

Brain46.6%4,596
Urban33.1%3,264
Rain12.0%1,188
Urbano7.7%764
Urbain0.58%57

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.

Urbain around the world

Where Urbain 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.

France
1900–2020
#6,201
in 2020

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Urbain by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #2,893; 1914
Peak year: 1924; 8 that year
First recorded: 1914
Last recorded: 1928
All-time count: 57
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Urbain

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

Gawain Shazain Sylvain Jamain Cobain Tywain Mccain Mclain Fabain Kobain Darain Dorain Owain Hunain Husain Narain Jordain Kaptain Duain Daquain Swain Husnain Hasnain Urbane

Sibling names for Urbain

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

For a sister

Rosina Kattie Lavon Blanch Jaunita Vernell Dorris Leonora

For a brother

Alvis Eldridge Merritt Lacy Delmer Wilton Elwin Domenick

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