Hube
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: first-person singular preterite indicative of haber
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/uβe/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Hube is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 87K(inferred from the name graph)
- CLChile≈1 in 150K
- ECEcuador≈1 in 270K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈960 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Seychelles, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)from nd. Hufe 'a farm holding; also a settlement'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Hube is read
(measured from records)Hube is one spelling over 5 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.
- Spanish26%
first-person singular preterite indicative of haber
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English26%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hube in English.
- German21%
from nd. Hufe 'a farm holding; also a settlement'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Habitational or Wohnstättensurname to place names Hube/Hub(e), sometimes with patronymic competition; bearer count 406.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
archaic form of Hufe (“historic measure of land”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hube in French.
- Hindi7.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hube in Hindi.
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)Hube 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 | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Hube | 63 |
| FR France | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 421K | 15 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 148 | 1 in 2.2M | 148 | Hube | 94 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 149K | 1 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 118 | 1 in 385K | 118 | — | 1 |
| EC Ecuador | — | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 272K | 1 | — | 3 |
| SC Seychelles | #282 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Hube | 1 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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)Hube 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 bbc, heart leaves; leaf buds; innermost still white sprouts from which the new leaves come
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In wba, snake
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)- Jan Michał Hubeb. 1737PLscientist
- Romuald Hubeb. 1803PLPolish legal historian (1803–1890)
- Józef Hubeb. 1804PLPolish jurist
- Carl August Hubeb. 1809DEGerman lithographer
- Hans-Valentin Hubeb. 1890DEGerman general (1890–1944)
- Walter Hubeb. 1923ATAustrian Esperantist
- Jörg Hubeb. 1943DEGerman actor and director (1943–2009)
- Alejandro Rojas Hubeb. 1962CLChilean rower
- Marcelo Rojas Hubeb. 1963CLChilean rower
- Florian Hubeb. 1980DEGerman footballer
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 148 | #117,480 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 147 | #111,119 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 144 | #125,089 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 118 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 18 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Hube come from?
- from nd. Hufe 'a farm holding; also a settlement' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Hube?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /uβe/; in German /ˈhuːbə/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Hube mean?
- In Spanish, first-person singular preterite indicative of haber
- In which country does Hube have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 962 people named Hube in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hube.
- How common is the name Hube?
- In the United States, the national register counted 148 people named Hube in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
- How common is Hube compared with other names?
- In the Seychelles, Hube is the 282nd most common surname of 2,002 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hube?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hubeThe 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, “Hube” — the 282nd most common surname in Seychelles. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.