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Urho

Boys' name

Hero

Urho has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1917, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Urho, 1923

1 in 256,000

Urho over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Urho: meaning, origin, and history

Hero

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Urho means

Urho means “hero”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Urho is used in Finnish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈur.ho/ for Urho.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Urho is pronounced /ˈurho/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 72 boys were recorded with the name Urho between 1913 and 1923. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1917; its best national rank was #2,413 in 1917.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Urho?

Urho had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1923, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1923
1 in 256,000
9 of 2,302,410 births
Among boys only
1 in 122,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1923
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
177,324 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Urho 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 1923 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 177,324 children born in 1923 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Urho. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Urhos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Urho was born before 1918 — so the typical Urho is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
70.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 70.8% of all recorded uses (51).

Is Urho 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 1917 (12)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,413
1917

Spellings of Urho

Urho is not the most common spelling — Arlo is, with 62.6% against Urho's 0.19%.

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.

Where Urho is used

Across 1910–2025, Urho was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 656,916 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Urho has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Urho 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
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Best rank ever
#2,413
1917
Peak year
1917
12 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
1923
All-time count
72
Count in 2025
Under 5

Sibling names for Urho

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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