Huber

English

Etymology

From German Huber.

Proper noun

Huber (plural Hubers)

1. A surname from German.

Derived terms

• Huber Heights

 

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Huber is the 933^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 37,170 individuals. Huber is most common among White (95.2%) individuals.

German

Distribution of Hubers in Germany

Distribution of Hubers in Austria

Etymology

From Middle High German huobe (“measure of land”), from the second element of Old High German *bihouf (“necessity”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihōf. Related to modern German Behuf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhuːbɐ]

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• Hyphenation: Hu‧ber

Proper noun

Huber m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Hubers or (with an article) Huber, feminine genitive Huber, plural Hubers or Huber)

1. a German surname (predominantly in Southern Germany and Austria)

Related terms

• Anderhuber, Angerhuber, Bachhuber, Berghuber, Breitenhuber, Brunnhuber
• Halbhuber, Hinterhuber, Mayrhuber, Niederhuber, Oberhuber
• Schmidhuber, Schönhuber, Seehuber, Steinhuber, Waldhuber
• Hofer, Hübner, Gruber, Schwarzentruber, Zuber

References

• Walter W[illiam] Skeat (1910) “HUBER”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, new (4th) revised and enlarged edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Clarendon Press, published 1963, →OCLC, page 58.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Huber.

Proper noun

Huber m (genitive/dative lui Huber)

1. a surname from German

References

• Iordan, Iorgu (1983) Dicționar al numelor de familie românești [A Dictionary of Romanian Family Names]‎^[1], Bucharest: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică