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Hub

Boys' name

Diminutive of Hubert

Hub has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1912. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1912, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Hub, 1912

1 in 198,000

Hub over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hub: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Hubert

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Hub means

Hub is a diminutive of Hubert.

Origin, language, and formation

Hub is used in East Central German.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Hubert.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Hub between 1912 and 1912. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1912; its best national rank was #2,703 in 1912.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hub?

Hub had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1912, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1912
1 in 198,000
5 of 988,027 births
Among boys only
1 in 86,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1912
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
136,971 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hub sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1912 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 136,971 children born in 1912 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hub. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hubs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hub was born before 1912 — so the typical Hub is around 113 today.

Median birth year
1912
About 113 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Hub rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1912 (5)
Years since peak
113
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#2,703
1912

Hub by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,703
1912
Peak year
1912
5 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1912
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hub

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

HubieHubartHuburtHuberyHubertoHuberHubbertHubbardHubert

Sibling names for Hub

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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