Hubert is a boy's name of German origin meaning “mind and bright, famous.” In 2024 it was given to 32 boys in the United States.
Hubert at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
German · French
Meaning
“mind and bright, famous”
Pronunciation
/ˈhjubɚt/
About the name Hubert
Hubert belongs to the German and French tradition. Its meaning — “mind and bright, famous” — is the sense carried by its German roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Hubert first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #106 in 1910, and in 2024 32 babies received the name — 57,538 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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