Hüfner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Occupational surname from agriculture; Hüfner = peasant/farmer holding a Hüfe/Hube
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/hʏfnɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hüfner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 78K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6Mas Huefner
- BRBrazil1 in 8.5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hüfner itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 78K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Huefner in US United States, EG Egypt, KE Kenya and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Occupational surname from agriculture; Hüfner = peasant/farmer holding a Hüfe/Hube. Bearer count: 655.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hüfner counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Hüfner | 53 |
| KE Kenya | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 180K | — | Huefner | 1 |
| EG Egypt | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 398K | — | Huefner | 1 |
| US United States | 206as Huefner | 1 in 1.6M | 245 | Huefner | 113 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 279K | — | Huefner | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 25 | 1 in 8.5M | 25 | — | — |
| FI Finland | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 231K | — | Huefner | 1 |
| LR Liberia | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | Huefner | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Hüfner is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Berufsname: aus frühnhd./md. hüf(e)ner 'Hufenbesitzer, Erblehenbauer'.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, from Hufe 'farm holding'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, Berufsname zu Bauer/Landarbeiter.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Gustav von Hüfnerb. 1840DEGerman chemist (1840–1908)
- Jakob Hüfnerb. 1875DEGerman inventor and watchmaker (1875–1968)
- Stefan Hüfnerb. 1935DEGerman physicist (1935-2013)
- Agnes Hüfnerb. 1938DEGerman opinion journalist, literary critic and translator
- Klaus Hüfnerb. 1939DEGerman economist
- Tatjana Hüfnerb. 1983DEluger
- Benjamin Huefnerb. 1991DEGerman ice hockey defenceman
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Hüfner come from?
- Occupational surname from agriculture; Hüfner = peasant/farmer holding a Hüfe/Hube. Bearer count: 655. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- How do you pronounce Hüfner?
- A machine transcription gives /hʏfnɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Hüfner mean?
- Recorded meaning: Occupational surname from agriculture; Hüfner = peasant/farmer holding a Hüfe/Hube.
- In which country does Hüfner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Hüfner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hüfner.
- How common is the name Hüfner?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 25 people named Hüfner, about 1 in 8.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%BCfnerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hüfner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.