Hobbel
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Alternative form of hobble
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɑbəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hobbel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.8Mas Hoebbel(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 70K
- NONorway1 in 137K
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 Hobbel 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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- 1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)
247 people, 2007
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hoebbel in US United States, NG Nigeria and Höbbel in DE Germany.
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)
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Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hobbel is read(measured from records)
Hobbel is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English51%
Alternative form of hobble.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Dutch16%
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as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hobbel in German.
- Portuguese6.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hobbel in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hobbel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 247 | 1 in 70K | 247 | Hobbel | 17 |
| DE Germany | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 508K | — | Höbbel | 33 |
| US United States | 120as Hoebbel | 1 in 2.8M | 120 | Hoebbel | 72 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Hoebbel | 1 |
| NO Norway | 40 | 1 in 137K | 40 | Hobbel | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 12 | 1 in 977K | 12 | Hobbel | 4 |
| IE Ireland | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 999K | — | Hobbel | 3 |
247 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Hobbel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In sco, to mend clumsily; cobble
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 247 | #8,418 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 40 | #30,255 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 12 | #65,225 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- Where does the name Hobbel come from?
- bump Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Hobbel?
- In the etymology graph, Hubbel is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Hobbel?
- A machine transcription gives /hɑbəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Hobbel mean?
- In English, Alternative form of hobble.
- In which country does Hobbel have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 247 people named Hobbel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hobbel.
- Where is Hobbel most common?
- Hobbel is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 70 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hobbel?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 247 people named Hobbel in 2007, about 1 in 70 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/hobbelThe 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, “Hobbel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.