Hübner

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Occupational surname: farmer/tenant of a Hube (farm holding); bearer count 16,432

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/hʏpnɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hübner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Belize it is the 86th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 3.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 50Kas Huebner
  • CACanada≈1 in 56Kas Huebner

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hübner itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈26,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
327 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HuebnerLatin(measured from records)
ฮบเนอรThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Huebner in US United States, CA Canada, BZ Belize and 2 more and Hubner in AT Austria.

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)

Occupational surname: farmer/tenant of a Hube (farm holding); bearer count 16,432.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hübner 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.

Where Hübner is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#102≈26,000 est.≈1 in 3.1KlistedHübner153
US United States—6,635as Huebner1 in 50K6.7KHuebner327
BR Brazil—6,3041 in 34K6.3K—2
EG Egypt—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 98K—Huebner4
CA Canada—≈680 est.≈1 in 56K—Huebner60
AT Austria#643≈450 est.≈1 in 20K—Hubner33
CH Switzerland—4231 in 20K423Hübner23
JO Jordan—≈420 est.≈1 in 26K—Huebner2
BZ Belize#86≈39 est.≈1 in 10K—Huebner1

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the dfa-band-5 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hübner is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Hubner, Húbner

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hubner

  • Czech surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak

    Also written Hubner, Hűbner

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Netherlands

    Also written Hubner, Húbner

  • Croatian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Hubner, Хубнер

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, United States

    Also written Hubner

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hübner is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Berufsname: Bauer/Erblehenbauer; zu mhd. huobe 'Hufe'. 16432 Belege.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  • In German, Berufsname: Hufner, Bauer; zu mhd. hube 'Hufe, Bauernhof'.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  • In German, Berufsname: Besitzer/Bewirtschafter einer Hufe (Erblehenbauer); als Typ mit regionaler Streuung beschrieben, ohne einzelne Bearerzahl im Text.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Jakob Hübner, b. 1761Julius Hübner, b. 1806Johanna Lüttge, b. 1936Robert Hübner, b. 1948Frank Hübner, b. 1950Andrea Hübner, b. 1957Isabella Hübner, b. 1966Clueso, b. 1980Benjamin Hübner, b. 1989Florian Hübner, b. 1991

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Dear Hübner, (English)
InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Hübner
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024423#3,111
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5———

Reference works 7

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hübner mean, and where does it come from?
Occupational surname: farmer/tenant of a Hube (farm holding); bearer count 16,432. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
How do you pronounce Hübner?
A machine transcription gives /hʏpnɐ/ (IPA) for German.
In which country does Hübner have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Hübner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hübner.
How common is the name Hübner?
In Brazil, the national register counted 6,304 people named Hübner, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
How common is Hübner compared with other names?
In Germany, Hübner is the 102nd most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Hübner” — the 102nd most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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