Given name & surname
Huber
Huber is a surname from German. It is used in English, German, and Romanian.
Original GermanHubertus
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Huber through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 353
- 353 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 16 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 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 781 as a first name in 2020; 35,444 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.
Huber’s family of names
In German usage, Huber has a later derivative in HOOVER. In German usage, Huber as a surname has a related form in Hubertus. In German usage, Huber as a surname has a related form in HAUBNER.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 31
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Hubertusvariant · German
- Huobervariant · German
- Hümmervariant · German
- Hüfnervariant · German
- Hufnervariant · German
- Hufmannvariant · German
- Hüflervariant · German
- Hüffnervariant · German
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- Hüffervariant · German
- Hüfervariant · German
- Huemervariant · German
- Huebmervariant · German
- Huebervariant · German
- Hübnervariant · German
- Hubnervariant · German
- Hübmervariant · German
- Hubmannvariant · German
- Hüblervariant · German
- Hublervariant · German
- Hübingervariant · German
- Hubingervariant · German
- Hübervariant · German
- Hübenervariant · German
- Houbervariant · German
- Hiemervariant · German
- Hiebnervariant · German
- Hieblervariant · German
- Hiebervariant · German
- Haumervariant · German
- Haubnervariant · German
- Hubberlikely variant
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Huber
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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