Humble
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ‘humble, obedient’; first attested Adam Homel 1242 AssDu
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Humble is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 73K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 42K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 45K
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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 308 (measured from records)
- 1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
4,588 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Humblé in NL Netherlands.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘humble, obedient’; first attested Adam Homel 1242 AssDu
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Humble 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 | 4,588 | 1 in 73K | 4.6K | Humble | 308 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 45K | listed | Humble | 153 |
| CA Canada | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Humble | 76 |
| SE Sweden | 242 | 1 in 42K | 242 | — | 28 |
| NL Netherlands | 83 | 1 in 208K | 83 | Humblé | 18 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 1 | — | 1 |
4,588 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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)
Humble is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, lowly person, from ME, OF (h)umble (L humilis low(ly), mean, base, a deriv. of humus ground).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
nickname for a meek or lowly person, from Middle English, Old French (h)umble (Latin humilis ‘lowly’, a derivative of humus ‘ground’).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a short pet form of the personal name Humbert.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
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)
- Julius Humbleb. 1835SESwedish translator
- Jack Humbleb. 1862GBBritish sports executive (1862-1931)
- Ben Humbleb. 1903GBBritish mountain climber
- William Ward, 4th Earl of Dudleyb. 1920GBnot in their usual nameBritish peer (1920-2013)
- Weldon Humbleb. 1921USAmerican football player (1921-1998)
- Keith Humbleb. 1927AUAustralian pianist, composer and educator
- Lars Humbleb. 1941SESwedish actor
- David Ward, 5th Earl of Dudleyb. 1947GBnot in their usual nameBritish peer
- Joan Humbleb. 1951GBBritish politician (born 1951)
- Jessica Humbleb. 1986AUAustralian football player
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 22 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.6K | #7,264 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.4K | #7,031 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.4K | #7,335 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 242 | #3,555 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 83 | #21,922 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Humble mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘humble, obedient’; first attested Adam Homel 1242 AssDu Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Humble have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Humble, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled humble.
- Where is Humble most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Humble is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 42 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Humble?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,588 people named Humble in 2010, about 1 in 73 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, “Humble”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.