GINGER HUBER

Originally a nickname for someone with red hair, occasionally used as a given name in the 20th century. As a girl's name it is sometimes a pet form of Virginia, as in the case of the film star Ginger Rogers (1911–1995, born Virginia McMath).

German (also Hüber, Hueber): status name based on Middle High German huobe, a measure of land, varying in size at different periods and in different places, but always of considerable extent, appreciably larger than the holding of the average peasant. The surname usually denotes a holder or owner of this amount of land, who would have been a prosperous small farmer and probably one of the leading men of his village. This name is widespread throughout central and eastern Europe, not only in German-speaking lands.