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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Patronymic from the personal name Humbert.
  • In some cases it may be a metathesized variant of English Humberston, a habitational name from a place in Lincolnshire named Humberston, from the ancient pre-English river name Humber + Old English stān ‘stone’. The surname occurs mainly in TX, PA, and OH.

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