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Hubert

Latin at root, meaning "bright mind, bright heart". Given only to boys, it still rings familiar across Poland, though each year fewer newborns get it than a decade back.

Hubert Pronunciation

Hubert is pronounced KHOO-bert (/ˈxubɛrt/).

Alive in 2025
90,161
Newborns 2025
906
National rank
#132
Next name day
3 November
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What Hubert means

Where Hubert comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Hubert reaches Polish speakers in its Latin dress, Hubertus, the form carved on old church calendars and parish rolls. The name glosses as bright mind, bright heart, a reading that suits a person better than a dictionary line. Short and firm on the tongue.

The best known Hubert is a saint. Hubert of Liège became patron of hunters, and his feast falls on the third of November, still kept in Poland as the imieniny of every man who carries the name. When a teacher reads down the class register on an autumn morning, the Hubert in the room knows his day is close.

So the name arrives twice, once as the Latin Hubertus on the formal page, and once as plain Hubert in the mouth of a friend. The sense stays the same across both: bright mind, bright heart.

When Hubert celebrates name day

Hubert appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 3 November.

Next name day
3 November
Tuesday in 2026
Next one in 54 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

How many people are named Hubert

1 in 237 men in Poland is named Hubert. 90,161 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #132 among male names.

People with the name Hubert 2019 → 2025
90,161 +5,840 since 2019
2020 85,079 +758
2021 86,366 +1,287
2022 87,450 +1,084
2023 88,427 +977
2024 89,347 +920
2025 90,161 +814

Hubert's popularity over time

906 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #74 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000.

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906 newborns with the name Hubert in 2025
national rank #74 that year

Where Hubert is most popular

Hubert is most popular in Pomeranian, 69% above the national average (1,016 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+47%) and Lesser Poland (+37%). It is least common in Świętokrzyskie and Masovian, 66% and 47% below average respectively.

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Hubert as a middle name

Hubert is a first name for 90,161 men in Poland and a middle name for another 23,737, a 79/21 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 83rd, between Bolesław (24,574) and Zenon (23,662).

As a first name
90,161
As a middle name
23,737
first name 79% middle name 21%
Middle-name ranking men

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