Family name origins & meanings
- German and Dutch : from a pet form of Humbert or Humbold (a compound name with the same first element + bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’).
- German, Dutch, and Danish (of German origin) : nickname for a busy or bustling person, from Middle High German hummel, Middle Dutch hommel ‘bee’, of imitative origin. Compare English humblebee, which in modern English has become bumblebee.