Given name & surname · also Middle English

Humber

Humber is a surname from Middle English, ultimately from Old English.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Humber comes from Middle English, and ultimately from Old English.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Middle English Humber, from Old English Humbre.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Similar names

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Old English

Dummer

Dummer is a surname from Old English.

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Old English

Pember

“fold, enclosure”

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Old English

Huxham

“homestead”

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Old Norse

Hungate

“hound”

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Old English

Huckabee

Huckabee is a surname from Old English.

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Old English

Hoar

“edge, brink”

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Old English

Fulmer

“wild fowl”

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78% boys · 22% girls

Old English

Hungerford

“hunger, famine”

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Sibling ideas

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