Humber
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Humber (Herefordshire), Humber in Bishopsteignton (Devon), or the River Humber; first attested John de Hwnbre 1305 IpmW
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Humber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 346K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 5.9M
- BRBrazil1 in 6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 346K (inferred from the name graph)
961 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Humber (Herefordshire), Humber in Bishopsteignton (Devon), or the River Humber; first attested John de Hwnbre 1305 IpmW
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Humber 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 | 961 | 1 in 346K | 1.1K | Humber | 38 |
| BR Brazil | 35 | 1 in 6M | 35 | Humber | 21 |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 1 | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | — |
961 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Humber is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, places so called from their situation on a stream with this name. Humber is a common prehistoric river name, of un¬ McKay). Vars.: Hugo (Cornwall; probably a recent reintroduction from certain origin and meaning. France); Hew(e), Howe.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, habitational name from any of the various places so called from their situation on a stream with this name. Humber is a common prehistoric river name, of uncertain origin and meaning.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A large tidal estuary forming part of the boundary between the East Riding of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, England.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, name from the River Humber
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In English, estuary, England; river, Canada
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Thomas Humberb. 1841GBBritish engineer and cycle manufacturer (1841-1910)
- Robert Lee Humberb. 1898USlawyer, businessman and activist (1898-1970)
- Bruce Humberb. 1913CACanadian sprinter
- Richard A. Humberb. 1947mycologist
- Philip Humberb. 1982USAmerican baseball player
- Ramon Humberb. 1987USAmerican football player
- George HumberRoyal Field Artillery sergent of WWI
- Tom Humberartist
- Charles H HumberUSHumber, Charles H; class of 1840
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,443 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 984 | #23,940 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 961 | #25,659 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 35 | #134,170 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #222,984 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #149,328 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #217,525 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Humber mean, and where does it come from?
- from Humber (Herefordshire), Humber in Bishopsteignton (Devon), or the River Humber; first attested John de Hwnbre 1305 IpmW Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Humber have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 961 people named Humber, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled humber.
- Where is Humber most common?
- Humber is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 346 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Humber?
- In the United States, the national register counted 961 people named Humber in 2010, about 1 in 346 thousand residents.
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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, “Humber”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.