Urs
Fewer than twenty men in Poland carry it, and the records show no newborns this century. Latin at root, it means "bear", and it reaches Poland through German use.
Urs Pronunciation
Urs is pronounced OORS (/urs/).
What Urs means
Where Urs comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Urs comes from the Latin ursus, the word for bear. In German-speaking Switzerland the short form Urs settled in and has stayed common for generations. The same Latin root sits behind Ursa Major, the constellation named the Great Bear.
Switzerland also gave the name a patron. Saint Ursus of Solothurn, a martyr of the Theban Legion, is venerated there, and his feast falls on the thirtieth of September. That fixed a name-day and kept Urs in local use.
Polish readers meet the name in another shape. In Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis, Ursus is the giant from Lygia's people, strong enough to wrestle a bull in the arena. The bear meaning fits the man. It reads today as plainly as the Latin ursus behind it.
How many people are named Urs
1 in 1334137 men in Poland is named Urs. 16 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #11798 among male names.
Urs as a middle name
Urs is a first name for 16 men in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 73/27 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4498th, between Urbano (6) and Uǧur (6).
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#4496 Unisław6
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#4497 Urbano6
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#4498 Urs6
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#4499 Uǧur6
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#4500 Vaclav6