Urbano as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Urbano

What is the meaning of the name Urbano ?

The baby name Urbano is a boy name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced oor-BAH-noh.

Urbano is Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish in Origin.

Urbano is the Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese continuation of Latin Urbanus, originally a Roman cognomen and Christian given name. Its root is the Latin adjective urbanus, built from urbs, city, with the adjectival suffix -anus indicating belonging or relation. The literal sense is of the city or belonging to the city; in classical usage the same word also contrasted polished civic manners with rustic speech.

The name entered medieval naming through ecclesiastical Latin and appears across Catholic Europe, especially in Italian and Iberian usage as Urbano, with Urban in English and German, Urbain in French, and Urbán in Hungarian or Spanish orthography. Its strongest religious associations are papal: several popes used the Latin regnal name Urbanus, including Urban I and Urban VIII. Secular bearers include Italian statesman Urbano Rattazzi. In the United States, records show limited use concentrated among Hispanic communities, with late twentieth-century registrations modest rather than mainstream.