Humphrey

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Humphrey is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Old French Humfrey, ultimately Germanic, literally ‘bear-cub peace’.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 5.7K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 6.8K
  • CACanada≈1 in 6.9K

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)

49,056 people, 2010

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
493 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

St. Vincent & Grenadines

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HumphreyLatin(measured from records)
험프리Hangul(measured from records)
ฮมฟรยThai(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 Old French Humfrey, ultimately Germanic, literally ‘bear-cub peace’

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Humphrey 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.

Where Humphrey is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#58549,0561 in 6.8K49KHumphrey493
GB United Kingdom#553≈11,000 est.≈1 in 5.7KlistedHumphrey248
ZM Zambia—≈5,700 est.≈1 in 3.1K16—18
NG Nigeria—≈5,600 est.≈1 in 38K—Humphrey66
CA Canada#639≈5,500 est.≈1 in 6.9K1Humphrey185
GY Guyana—2291 in 3.3K229—7
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines—861 in 1.2K86—3
IS Iceland#685≈85 est.≈1 in 4.1K1Humphrey7
GD Grenada—401 in 2.8K40—3

49,056 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 welsh-surnames-morgan-1985 register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Humphrey is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Hümphrey

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Hùmphrey

70 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Humphrey 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, Germanic folk name Huni, “peace”; also used as a translation of Amhiaoibh (Olaf).

    as a nameIrish first names

  • In English, Teutonic; meaning not fully legible in OCR

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In English, from the Old Germanic personal name Hunfrid/Humfrid; first attested Hunfridus 1086 DB

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, from the given name Humphrey; earliest cite: 1293 Umfrey.

    as a nameWelsh Surnames

  • In English, from the Old French personal name Humfrey, introduced to Britain by the Normans. This is composed of the Germanic elements hun ‘bear cub’ +frid,fred ‘peace’. It was borne by a 9th-century saint, bishop of Therouanne, who had a certain following in England among Norman settlers.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family 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)

1850190019502000Edith Humphrey, b. 1875William Humphrey, b. 1875George M. Humphrey, b. 1890Doris Humphrey, b. 1895John Peters Humphrey, b. 1905Hubert Humphrey, b. 1911William Humphrey, b. 1924Nicholas Humphrey, b. 1943Luke Humphrey, b. 1987Sam Humphrey, b. 1994

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 63 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Humphrey
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201049K#705
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200047K#655
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202047K#722
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025229#397
VC St. Vincent & GrenadinesElectoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025)202586#176
GD GrenadaGrenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025202540#183
GB United KingdomWelsh Surnames (Morgan & Morgan, 1985)———

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 given-name tokens
  • 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 Humphrey mean, and where does it come from?
from Old French Humfrey, ultimately Germanic, literally ‘bear-cub peace’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
What are other forms of the name Humphrey?
In the etymology graph, Humphry is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Humphrey have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 49 thousand people named Humphrey, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled humphrey.
Where is Humphrey most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Humphrey is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Humphrey?
In the United States, the national register counted 49,056 people named Humphrey in 2010, about 1 in 6.8 thousand residents.
How common is Humphrey compared with other names?
In the United States, Humphrey is the 585th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Humphrey” — the 585th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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