[SkyDancer]

Since they’re all named after Greek gods I suppose it was natural to do so? And it’s pronounced You-Rain-Us not Urine-In-Ous (said real fast all together) like PBS did a while back. They were attempting to stay away from the obvious mispronunciation but wound up glaringly pointing to it.

[Rufii]

And it’s pronounced You-Rain-Us

That's how I and everyone I know pronounces it, despite National Public Radio commentators insisting that it's pronounced "urine-us."

[hanamizu]

Actually the “correct” pronunciation is Ur’ an us, not Ur an’ us. But since every school teacher I ever had pronounced it the second way, that is how I (and probably all of you) said it. Both are pretty much accepted, but the pros use the first.

Uranus was the Greek god of the heavens, father of Saturn.

[BenLurkin]

Large floor mosaic from a Roman villa in Sassoferrato, Italy....
Aion (Uranus), the god of eternity, stands
above Tellus (Gaia) and her four children (the seasons).
Credit: Wikipedia Commons/Bibi Saint-Poi

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Since they’re all named after Greek gods I suppose it was natural to do so?

The other planets are named after Roman gods (and Saturn the Titan), not their Greek equivalents. Uranus was the Greek god of the sky, as I remember - the father of Kronos and the grandfather of Zeus. They might have named it after Minerva.