Hauber
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a maker of headgear, from Middle High German hube, hoube ‘cap’, ‘hood’, ‘helmet’, German Haube + the agent suffix -er
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Hauber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 187K
- NLNetherlands1 in 234K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 205 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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 name for a maker of headgear, from Middle High German hube, hoube ‘cap’, ‘hood’, ‘helmet’, German Haube + the agent suffix -er.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hauber 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Hauber | 84 |
| US United States | 1,014 | 1 in 328K | 1.2K | Hauber | 205 |
| BR Brazil | 262 | 1 in 808K | 262 | Hauber | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 322K | — | Hauber | 30 |
| IT Italy | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 339K | — | Hauber | 9 |
| AT Austria | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Hauber | 22 |
| NL Netherlands | 74 | 1 in 234K | 74 | Hauber | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | 45 | 1 in 187K | 45 | Hauber | 10 |
| IE Ireland | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 206K | — | Hauber | 2 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Eberhard David Hauberb. 1695DEGerman theologian
- Ernst Christian Hauberb. 1730Danish writer
- Joseph Hauberb. 1766DEGerman painter (1766-1834)
- Albert Hauberb. 1806DEGerman theologian (1806-1883)
- Anton Hauberb. 1879DEGerman historian
- William Hauberb. 1891USactor (1891-1929)
- Hans-Gerold Hauberb. 1913DEGerman navy officer and WWII submarine commander
- Josef Hauberb. 1944DEGerman composer
- Joachim Hauberb. 1955DEGerman virologist
- Zsolt Hauberb. 1968HUHungarian musician
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)Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,923 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #22,950 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,629 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 262 | #29,504 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 74 | #23,942 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 45 | #20,234 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Hauber mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a maker of headgear, from Middle High German hube, hoube ‘cap’, ‘hood’, ‘helmet’, German Haube + the agent suffix -er. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hauber have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Hauber in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hauber.
- How common is the name Hauber?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,014 people named Hauber in 2010, about 1 in 328 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hauberThe 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, “Hauber”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.