Huub

given name · Latin script

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

Huub is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Shortening of Hubrecht.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 7.8K(measured from records)

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.

Netherlands (measured from records)

2,224 people

Sources
9 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Shortening of Hubrecht.

Sources 1

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Huub 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 Huub is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands2,2241 in 7.8K2.2KHuub9
IT Italy——listed——

2,224 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)

Huub is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Estonian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Hüüb

32 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)

Huub is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Dutch: short form of HUBERT .

    as a word

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)

1850190019502000Huub Felix, b. 1895Huub Bals, b. 1937Huub Zilverberg, b. 1939Huub Harings, b. 1939Huub Stevens, b. 1953Huub Stapel, b. 1954Huub Rothengatter, b. 1954Huub van Boeckel, b. 1960Huub Smit, b. 1978Huub Duyn, b. 1984

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 6 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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 Huub mean, and where does it come from?
Shortening of Hubrecht. Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Huub a male or female name?
Huub is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Huub?
In the etymology graph, Hubert, Hubertus and Uberto are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Huub have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Huub, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled huub.
Where is Huub most common?
Huub is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.8 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Huub?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,224 people named Huub, about 1 in 7.8 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, “Huub”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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