The Ursin surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 560 people carried this name — #39,281 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 526,300 people counted. That is up 12% from 500 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Ursin surname
Borrowed from Danish and Swedish Ursin.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Ursin» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 88 people named Ursin.
Those born in France came from 20 départements, most often Seine-Maritime.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
642 people named Ursin are counted in Finland, Norway and Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Ursin,
with a public archive behind them.
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Zacharias Ursinus 1534–1583 · theologian -
Nils Abraham af Ursin 1785–1851 · physician -
Nils Abraham af Ursin 1785–1851 · physician
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Georg Frederik Ursin 1797–1849 · astronomer -
Simon Christoph Ursin 1644–1702 · jurist
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Georg Heinrich Ursin 1647–1707 · philologist
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Ursin.
- Urbino 202 · U.S. census
- Urena 11,066 · U.S. census
- Urie 1,092 · U.S. census
- Urlacher 417 · U.S. census
- Urrea 2,360 · U.S. census
- Urrutia 7,208 · U.S. census
- Urso 2,691 · U.S. census
- Ursprung 188 · U.S. census
- Ury 435 · U.S. census
- Utrera 589 · U.S. census
- Utter 4,331 · U.S. census
- Utz 3,044 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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