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 Hube +‎ -er; 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)

Declension

Declension of Huber [masculine // feminine, surname]

	singular						plural
	masculine			feminine
	indef.	def.	noun	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	(ein)	(der)	Huber	(eine)	(die)	Huber	(die)	Hubers, Huber
genitive	(eines)	(des)	Hubers, Huber1	(einer)	(der)	Huber	(der)	Hubers, Huber
dative	(einem)	(dem)	Huber	(einer)	(der)	Huber	(den)	Hubers, Huber
accusative	(einen)	(den)	Huber	(eine)	(die)	Huber	(die)	Hubers, Huber

¹With an article.

Related terms

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

Descendants

• Translingual: Huberia

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