Urbanavičius

Urbanavičius
Lithuanian surname
m.:Urbanavičius
f.: (unmarried)Urbanavičiūtė
f.: (married)Urbanavičienė
Related namesUrbonaitis/Urboneit, Polish: Urbanowicz, Russian: Urbanovich; Yiddish: Urbanowitz[1]

Urbanavičius is a Lithuanian family name, a patronymic from the given name Urbonas[2][3] Variant: Urbanavyčius .[1] The surname is created with the suffix -ičius, which is a Lithuanization of the Polish/Ruthenian patronymic suffix -wicz/-vich.

Notable people with the surname include:

  • Bronius Urbanavičius (1918-1993), Soviet WWII partisan, Hero of the Soviet Union
  • Dalia Urbanavičienė (born 1958), Lithuanian ethnomusicologist, doctor of sciences, actress
  • Justinas Urbanavičius (born 1982), Lithianian politician, M.P.
  • Vladas Urbanavičius (born 1951), Lithuanian sculptor
  • Vytautas Urbanavičius (1935) (1935–2024), Lithuanian archeologist

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Urbanavicius
  • All pages with titles containing Urbanaviciute
  • All pages with titles containing Urbanaviciene
  • Urbonavičius

References

  1. ^ a b URBONAVIČIUS, Lithuanian surnames database
  2. ^ Lietuviškos pavardės
  3. ^ Algis Uzdila, ŽVILGSNIS Į PAVARDŽIŲ LOBYNĄ. N -Ž, Terra Jatwezenorum [Jotvingių kraštas: jotvingių krašto istorijos paveldo metraštis]. 2015, 7, p. 54-73, 538-539, 563-564