Hubertus
given name · Western Frisian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hubertus is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and Dutch, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From the Latinized given name Hubertus; shows -us transposition, short forms, and patronymic -z.
- NLNetherlands1 in 214◐
- DEGermany1 in 5.9K
- USUnited States1 in 3.2M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈81K ●
- Sources
- 153 ●
- 1 in 214 ◐
across 7 countries
23K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin●
From the Latinized given name Hubertus; shows -us transposition, short forms, and patronymic -z.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #52 | 80,591△ | 811 rec. | 1 in 214 | 81K | Hubertus | 57 |
| DE Germany | #654 | 20,639 | 18K rec. | — | 3 | Hubertus | 153 |
| BE Belgium | — | 526 | 370 rec. | — | 2 | Hubertus | 26 |
| AT Austria | — | 440 | 134 rec. | — | 61 | Hubertus | 41 |
| FR France | — | 344 | 305 rec. | — | 6 | Hubertus | 62 |
| AU Australia | — | 280 | 259 rec. | — | 3 | Hubertus | 31 |
| SE Sweden | — | 247△ | 10 rec. | 1 in 41K | 247 | — | 11 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 187 | 185 rec. | — | — | Hubertus | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 156 | 61 rec. | — | — | Hubertus | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 134 | 128 rec. | — | — | Hubertus | 20 |
| ES Spain | — | 133 | 66 rec. | — | — | Hubertus | 19 |
| US United States | — | 105 | 2.5K rec. | 1 in 3.2M | 146 | Hubertus | 91 |
Roughly 81K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 214). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Western Frisian100K34%
- Dutch89K30%
- English82K28%
- German22K8%
- Indonesian1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Western Frisian | 100,009 | 34% |
| Dutch | 88,644 | 30% |
| English | 82,081 | 28% |
| German | 22,336 | 8% |
| Indonesian | 1,019 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Hubertus is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, aus dem Rufnamen Hubert/Hubertus/Huberty/Huppertz; Patronym aus hug 'Gedanke, Geist' + berht 'glänzend, berühmt'
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, aus dem Rufnamen Hubertus/Hubert; zu ahd. hugu 'Sinn, Gedanke'; patronymische Bildung
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Latenisierte Form des Familiennamens Hubertus mit Nominativendung -us; dokumentiert die lat. Form. 228 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Latinisierte Vollform zu Hubert; morphologische Transposition mit latin. -us, 228 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Latinisiert; morphologische Transposition auf -us. Belegt in NL/BE/LUX: 43/2/0.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 16 |
| 2000 | 16 |
| 2001 | 16 |
| 2002 | 15 |
| 2003 | 14 |
| 2004 | 12 |
| 2005 | 12 |
| 2006 | 12 |
| 2007 | 14 |
| 2008 | 14 |
| 2009 | 15 |
| 2010 | 16 |
| 2011 | 16 |
| 2012 | 17 |
| 2013 | 21 |
| 2014 | 20 |
| 2015 | 19 |
| 2016 | 19 |
| 2017 | 19 |
| 2018 | 17 |
| 2019 | 19 |
| 2020 | 18 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Hubertusb. 655FRChristian saint, first bishop of Liège (c.656-727)
- Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gothab. 1909DEGerman prince (1909–1943)
- Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollernb. 1932DEnot in their usual nameGerman prince (1932-2016)
- Sepp Piontekb. 1940DEnot in their usual nameGerman association football player and manager
- Andreas Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gothab. 1943DEnot in their usual namePrince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Carl XVI Gustaf of Swedenb. 1946SEnot in their usual nameKing of Sweden since 1973
- Huub Stevensb. 1953NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player and manager
- Hubertus Heilb. 1972DEGerman politician (SPD), federal minister of labour
- Hubertus, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gothab. 1975DEGerman prince
- Mark Flekkenb. 1993NLnot in their usual nameDutch footballer (born 1993)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 38 sources across 18 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 113 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hubertus?
- We estimate roughly 81 thousand people bear Hubertus (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hubertus have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 81 thousand people bear Hubertus in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled hubertus.
- Where is Hubertus most common?
- Hubertus is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 214 people carrying it.
- How common is Hubertus compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Hubertus is the 52nd most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
- Is Hubertus a male or female name?
- Hubertus is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Hubertus mean?
- Recorded meaning: From the Latinized given name Hubertus; shows -us transposition, short forms, and patronymic -z.
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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hubertus” — the 52nd most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.