Urho
Urho was last recorded in 1923, when 9 babies were given it; 72 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 1923 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Urho by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Urho mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Urho is “a male given name”
From urho. The given name was likely first used in the 19th century. The surname is probably relatively young, and has only be attested since the mid-19th century.
/ˈurho/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Urho?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,155, in 1923; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 1917, the peak
Urho peaked in 1917, when 12 boys were given it, #2,413 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1923 | 9 | #3,155 | 8.2 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,841 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,936 | 4.7 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,760 | 5.1 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,527 | 11.8 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,413 | 13.0 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,721 | 11.2 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,240 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,788 | 11.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Urho a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Urho has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 9 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Urho: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Urho, and how old are they?
Almost everyone recorded as Urho was born before 1900, so the estimate of Americans with the name alive today rounds to none. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,696 babies since 1880, Urho is the third most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 50 babies recorded by SSA was a Urho (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Urho and names like it
- Compare Urho and UriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sUrho peaked in 1917.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Urho since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Urho: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Urho.
- Names starting with UMost given first.