Webber (surname)

This article is about the surname Webber. For other uses, see Webber (disambiguation).

Webber (/ˈwɛbər/) is an English occupational surname meaning weaver.^[1]

Etymology

Webber is an occupational surname referring to, "a maker of cloth".^[2] The ending "er" generally denotes some employment, examples include Miller and Salter. The ending "er" is the masculine form whilst "ster", as in Webster, is the feminine form.^[3][4][5][6]

Variants of the name include Weaver, Webbe, Webster and Weber, the German form of the name.^[7][8]

Notable people with the surname Webber

• Anna Webber (born 1984), Canadian saxophonist, flutist, and composer
• A. R. F. Webber (1880–1932), Trinidadian writer
• Andrew Lloyd Webber (born 1948), British composer
• Bonnie Webber (born 1946), computational linguist
• Chris Webber (born 1973), American basketball player
• Charles Wilkins Webber (1819–1856), American journalist and explorer
• Danny Webber (born 1981), English footballer
• Darren Webber (born 1981), Australian politician
• David Webber (basketball) (born 1980), American basketball player
• Diane Webber (1932–2008), American model and actress
• Elizabeth Webber, fictional character in TV series General Hospital
• George W. Webber (politician) (1825–1900), U.S. Representative
• Gordon Webber (disambiguation), several people
• Herbert John Webber (1865–1946), American plant physiologist
• John Webber (1752–1793), Swiss-English painter
• Jules C. Webber (1838-1872), American Civil War brevet brigadier general
• Julian Lloyd Webber (born 1951), British solo cellist, conductor and broadcaster
• Margareta Webber (1891–1983), Australian bookseller
• Mark Webber (disambiguation), several people
• Michael Webber (engineer) (born 1971), American mechanical engineer
• Michael Webber (priest), Dean of Hobart
• Michael Webber (politician) (born 1978), American politician
• Melvin M. Webber (1920–2006), American urban designer and theorist
• Pamela Balash-Webber (1953-2020), American diving instructor
• Peter Webber, British film director
• Rob Webber, English rugby union player
• Robert Webber, American actor
• Robert E. Webber, American theologian
• Ruth Webber, Australian politician
• Samuel Webber (1759–1810), American clergyman, mathematician and academic
• Sharon Webber, American surfer
• Sian Webber, British actress
• Stacey Lee Webber (born 1982), American metalsmith
• Stephen Webber (born 1983), American politician
• Steve Webber, American baseball coach
• Teresa Webber, British palaeographer, medievalist, and academic
• Walter Webber, Western Cherokee leader and trader, founder of present-day Webbers Falls, Oklahoma
• Whitney Webber (born 1978), American rower
• William B. Webber (1836-1916), American lawyer and politician
• William John Seward Webber (1842–1919), British sculptor

See also

• Lloyd Webber, a surname
• Paine Webber, an American company
• Weber (surname)

References

1. Hanks, Patrick; Hodges, Flavia (1988). A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-211592-8.
2. Samuel Johnson (1818). Todd, Henry John (ed.). A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals; and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers: Together with a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, Volume 4. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown.
3. William Chauncey Fowler (1850). English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a History of Its Origin and Development ; Designed for Use in Colleges and Schools. Harper & Brothers, Publishers. p. 424.
4. Mark Antony Lower (1844). English Surnames: Essays on Family Nomenclature, historical etymological and humorous. John Russell Smith. p. 95.
5. Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1915). English Surnames: Their Sources and Significations (4th ed.). Chatto and Windus. p. 321.
6. The Ladies' Repository, Volume 36. L. Swormstedt and J.H. Power. 1876. p. 276.
7. Mark Antony Lower (1844). English Surnames: Essays on Family Nomenclature, historical etymological and humorous. John Russell Smith. p. 92.
8. University of the State of New York (1881). Annual Report of the Regents, Volume 94. p. 623.