Urso surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Urso surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 2,672 people carried this name — #10,929 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 101,000 people counted.

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In Switzerland’s population statistics

284 people named Urso live in Switzerland.

They live in 16 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Aargau.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Aargau 64
Vaud 37
Basel-Landschaft 30
Zurich 25
Ticino 24
Basel-Stadt 22
Geneva 17
Solothurn 14

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 128 people named Urso.

Most of them — 93 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 16 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they were born

Born outside France 93
Bouches-du-Rhône 10
Hérault 6
Haute-Savoie 3
Paris 2
Rhône 2
Loire 2
Isère 1
Hauts-de-Seine 1

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Belgium’s population register

At least 65 people named Urso live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Hainaut.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Hainaut 54
Flemish Brabant 6
Liège 5

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

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