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.
Urbanavičius | |
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Lithuanian surname | |
m.: | Urbanavičius |
f.: (unmarried) | Urbanavičiūtė |
f.: (married) | Urbanavičienė |
Related names | Urbonaitis/Urboneit, Polish: Urbanowicz, Russian: Urbanovich; Yiddish: Urbanowitz[1] |
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
editReferences
edit- ^ a b URBONAVIČIUS, Lithuanian surnames database
- ^ Lietuviškos pavardės
- ^ 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