Where does “Hibbert” come from?

Hibbert is an English surname of uncertain origin and meaning, possibly derived from a Germanic personal name but with no documented etymological chain.

Ancestry of “Hibbert”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishHilbert
2Old Englishhildbattle, war
3Proto-West Germanichildibattle, fight
4Proto-Germanichildizbattle, fight
Every word from Proto-Germanic hildiz