Hubèr
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hubèr is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Austria it is the 2nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Middle High German huobe (“measure of land”), from the second element of Old High German *bihouf (“necessity”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihōf. Related to modern German Behuf.
- ATAustria≈1 in 458(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 468
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 456 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 458 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Huber in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle High Germanhuobe“measure of land”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*bihōf(measured from records)
From Middle High German huobe (“measure of land”), from the second element of Old High German *bihouf (“necessity”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihōf. Related to modern German Behuf.
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hubèr counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Huber | 12 |
| DE Germany | #41 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Huber | 238 |
| US United States | #842 | 37,170 | 1 in 8.9K | 37K | Huber | 456 |
| AT Austria | #2 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 458 | — | Huber | 167 |
| CH Switzerland | #7 | 17,941 | 1 in 468 | 18K | Huber | 143 |
| CA Canada | #814 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Huber | 151 |
| IE Ireland | #822 | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Huber | 17 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hubèr mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle High German huobe (“measure of land”), from the second element of Old High German *bihouf (“necessity”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihōf. Related to modern German Behuf. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- Is Hubèr a male or female name?
- Hubèr is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Hubèr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 121 thousand people named Hubèr in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled huber.
- How common is the name Hubèr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 37,170 people named Hubèr in 2010, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Hubèr compared with other names?
- In Austria, Hubèr is the 2nd most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hub%C3%A8rThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hubèr” — the 2nd most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.