Hummer
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: One who hums
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈhʌmɚ/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Hummer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 7.9Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BBBarbados≈1 in 8.6Kfew records
- BZBelize≈1 in 16Kfew records
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 Hummer itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 290 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)
3,203 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Hümmer in DE Germany and Huemmer in LR Liberia.
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 a Germanic personal name composed of the elements hugi ‘heart’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’ + mari ‘famous’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hummer is read
(measured from records)Hummer is one spelling over 2 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.
- English80%
One who hums.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German6.6%
lobster
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Hummer 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 | — | 3,203 | 1 in 104K | 3.5K | Hummer | 290 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Hümmer | 72 |
| AT Austria | #804 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | — | Hummer | 68 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Hummer | 30 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 168K | — | Hummer | 30 |
| LR Liberia | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Huemmer | 1 |
| BB Barbados | #308 | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Hummer | 2 |
| BZ Belize | #195 | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Hummer | 1 |
3,203 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 2000. 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)Hummer 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.
from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements hugi ‘heart’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’ + mari ‘famous’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Norwegian Bokmål, a lobster (crustacean)
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)- André Hummerb. 1868ATAustrian concert director and composer; conductor of the Tonkünstler-Orchester (1908-1918).
- Gustav Hummerb. 1877ATCzech pharmacist and lawyer
- Josef Hummerb. 1901ATAustrian farmer and politician (1901-1954)
- Dixie Toelkesb. 1935USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician
- Waldemar Hummerb. 1942ATAustrian university teacher
- John Hummerb. 1948USAmerican basketball player, businessman
- Craig Hummerb. 1965USAmerican sports announcer
- Julia Hummerb. 1980DEGerman actress and singer
- Ian Hummerb. 1990USAmerican basketball player
- Kim E. HummerUSbotanist and horticulturalist
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.5K | #8,626 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #10,064 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.1K | #9,930 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Hummer come from?
- from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements hugi ‘heart’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’ + mari ‘famous’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hummer?
- It depends on the language: in English /ˈhʌmɚ/ (Wiktionary); in German /ˈhʊmɐ/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Hummer mean?
- In English, One who hums.
- In which country does Hummer have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Hummer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hummer.
- How common is the name Hummer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,203 people named Hummer in 2010, about 1 in 104 thousand residents.
- How common is Hummer compared with other names?
- In Belize, Hummer is the 195th most common surname of 11,408 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hummerThe 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, “Hummer” — the 195th most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.