Hups is the abbreviated phrase in reference to:

• The European family name
  Family name
  A family name is a type of surname and part of a person's name indicating the family to which the person belongs. The use of family names is widespread in cultures around the world...
  
   Hupperts and from its derived first name Hubert.
  • As a family name it is explained as an abbreviation of Hupperts (Swiss and South German form of Huberowitz) meaning "Houber
    Kubrat
    Kubrat or Kurt was a Bulgar ruler credited with establishing the confederation of Old Great Bulgaria in 632. He is said to have achieved this by conquering the Avars and uniting all the Bulgar tribes under one rule....
    
    's son" or "(son) of Heber
    Heber
    Heber may be:-Religious traditions:*One of the Minor characters in the Book of Genesis*Heber the Kenite, mentioned in the Book of Judges 4:17 of the Hebrew Bible as Jael's husband...
    
    " or simply Heber
    Heber
    Heber may be:-Religious traditions:*One of the Minor characters in the Book of Genesis*Heber the Kenite, mentioned in the Book of Judges 4:17 of the Hebrew Bible as Jael's husband...
    
    ite.
  • Hubert as a first name it is most commonly explained from Teutonic
    Teutons
    The Teutons or Teutones were mentioned as a Germanic tribe by Greek and Roman authors, notably Strabo and Marcus Velleius Paterculus and normally in close connection with the Cimbri, whose ethnicity is contested between Gauls and Germani...
    
     combining the elements Mind (Hu) + Bright (Bert).
  • Hups as a short hand abbreviated name.
• Saint Hupperts, first bishop of Liège, Belgium, was the "Apostle to the Ardennes;"
• Some communes in France
  France
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   start with Hupperts , such as the Hups-Folie
• Hubert, North Carolina
  Hubert, North Carolina
  Hubert, North Carolina is a small town in the Eastern Part of Onslow County, North Carolina, United States, in North Carolina's Inner Banks region, near the city of Swansboro. Hubert is part of the Jacksonville, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area....
  
  
• The thirty-eighth Vice President of the United States, Hubert Humphrey
  Hubert Humphrey
  Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. , served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and...
  
  

The name also occurs in the following variations:

• Hubertas (Lithuania, s. Hubertas Grušnys
  Hubertas Grušnys
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  )
• Huppertz (Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, USA),
• Hupperts (Hups)
• Huppert (France)
• Hupert
• Hobart
  Hobart (disambiguation)
  -Places:In the United States:*Hobart, Indiana*Hobart, Louisiana*Hobart, New York*Hobart, Oklahoma*Hobart, Washington*Hobart, Wisconsin*Hobart Mills, California-People:* "Baron Hobart", a subsidiary title which is held by the Earl of Buckinghamshire...
  
  
• Hibbert
• Kuybers
• Kober
• Kubritz
• Kupar
• Heberite
• Hubertus
  Hubertus
  Saint Hubertus or Hubert , called the "Apostle of the Ardennes" was the first Bishop of Liège...
  
  

The Hupperts family name is also sometimes said to be derived from Hubert but Hubert dates to the Norman conquest and Hupperts probably comes from the much earlier conqueror Hubba the Dane. In fact, the book "One Thousand Years of Hubbard History" published in 1895 by Edward Day claims Hubert was a spelling variation of Hubbard, not the other way around.