نتائج لـ vrbanovich

This surname is part of a large group of Slavic family names formed from personal names, in this case, the name Urban (translated from Latin as «urban, living in the city»). The surname was formed using the patronymic suffix -ovich, which indicated the paternal origin: Urbanovich is the son of Urban.

The surname is common in Poland and Belarus (mainly in the Grodno and Minsk Regions). In Russia, it is found mainly in the Kaliningrad and Novosibirsk Regions, and the Krasnodar and Krasnoyarsk Territories.

The surname existed already in the 17th century. So, since 1631, the Polish noble family of the Urbanovichi appears in documents. In the reply of 1668 to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, voivode Miron Kologrivov about the troubles in Little Russia mentions the Zaporozhye colonel Urbanovich, who led 1,500 Cossacks to the city of Glukhov and tried to expel representatives of the legitimate authorities from it.