Huban
surname · Latin script
Meaning: relationship name from the personal name Hugh (Old French Hue, Middle English Hewe; see Hugh ) + Middle English barn ‘child’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/həbən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Huban is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 343K(inferred from the name graph)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 363K
- DKDenmark1 in 652K
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 343K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)relationship name from the personal name Hugh (Old French Hue, Middle English Hewe; see Hugh ) + Middle English barn ‘child’. Compare Goodban .
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world
(measured from records)Huban 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | listed | Huban | 87 |
| PH Philippines | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Huban | 4 |
| PL Poland | 40 | 1 in 957K | 21 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Huban | 10 |
| CA Canada | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Huban | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 343K | — | Huban | 9 |
| DK Denmark | 9 | 1 in 652K | 9 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 363K | — | Huban | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Huban is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, Güzeller, sevgililer.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
In bjn, grey hair
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Eileen Hubanb. 1896IEactress
- Peter Hubanb. 1976IEIrish hurler
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 21 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 21 | #86,828 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 19 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 19 | #92,299 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 9 | #42,978 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Where does the name Huban come from?
- relationship name from the personal name Hugh (Old French Hue, Middle English Hewe; see Hugh ) + Middle English barn ‘child’. Compare Goodban . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Huban?
- A machine transcription gives /həbən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Huban mean?
- Recorded meaning: relationship name from the personal name Hugh (Old French Hue, Middle English Hewe; see Hugh ) + Middle English barn ‘child’.
- In which country does Huban have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 144 people named Huban in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled huban.
- How common is the name Huban?
- In Poland, the national register counted 40 people named Huban in 2026, about 1 in 957 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hubanThe 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, “Huban”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.