Given name & surname · also German
Hoover
Hoover is a surname from German, ultimately from Low German.
Original GermanHuber
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Hoover comes from German, and ultimately from Low German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Hoover as a surname developed from HUBER.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Hoover through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,127
- 1,120 boys · 7 girls
- Most popular year
- 1928
- 256 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 256 in 1928. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 472 as a first name in 2020; 57,000 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hoover’s family of names
In English usage, Hoover as a surname developed from the German form HUBER.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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