Family name origins & meanings
- German : habitational name from a place so called near Lippe, originally named Hunebeke ‘dirty stream’.
- North German (Frisian) : from a pet form of the personal name Hummo, a reduced form of the Germanic names Hugimar (composed of the elements hugi ‘heart’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’ + māri ‘great’, ‘famous’) or Hunmar (composed of the elements hun ‘Hun’, ‘giant’ + māri ‘great’, ‘famous’).