The Urbina surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 15,055 people carried this name — #2,409 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 19,600 people counted. That is up 43% from 10,511 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Urbina surname
Borrowed from Spanish Urbina, a habitational surname from Basque.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Urbina» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 4,475 people named Urbina live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
35 people named Urbina live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Urbina in American newspapers,
1915–1917.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 2,979 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Urbina,
with a public archive behind them.
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Ramón María de Urbina 1751–1824 · politician -
Julio Urbina 1860–1937 · politician -
Rosendo Urbina d. 2018 · teacher
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Rolando Hugo Urbina Bravo d. 1973
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Domingo Antonio Urbina Diaz d. 1973
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Luis Alberto Urbina Diaz d. 1973
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Urbina,
in the records of 2 countries.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States183 records
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 135
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 28
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 17
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 2
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 1
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Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record Octavio UrbinaBorn 1913 in Texas. Enlisted 1941 at Los Angeles, California; textile mill worker. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1997, buried at Riverside National Cemetery, California.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. burial record, 1864 Burial record Ismael UrbinaU.S. Air Force veteran of the Korean War. Born 1933, died 1999; buried at Rose Hills, Whittier, California.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s Alien registration Soledad UrbinaBorn 1903 in Mexico. Registered as a foreign national in San Diego County, California, under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.
U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)
Showing 3 of 183 records for Urbina in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index. Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain); Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).
France2 records
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Raphael UrbinaBorn 1949 in Spain; died 1990 in Vallabrègues (Gard).
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Agueda Victoria UrbinaBorn 1909 in Spain; died 1999 in Spain.
Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Urbina.
- Urbanek 1,754 · U.S. census
- Urbani 349 · U.S. census
- Urbaniak 1,402 · U.S. census
- Urbano 4,368 · U.S. census
- Urbański 3,270 · U.S. census
- Urbin 361 · U.S. census
- Urbino 202 · U.S. census
- Urena 11,066 · U.S. census
- Urias 7,941 · U.S. census
- Uribe 24,612 · U.S. census
- Urie 1,092 · U.S. census
- Urlacher 417 · U.S. census
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