The name Hüffler first crops up in a 1305 document from the Remigiusberg Monastery, which has been handed down to the present in a cartulary. It deals with a donation from a Knight of Wadenau, and also mentions a Schöffe (roughly lay jurist) named Konrad von Hufflers. Further mentions are: Hiffelers (1446), Huffelers (1460), Hüfflers (1587), Hüffler (1790). There have been various attempts to interpret the name. Supposedly, the village was founded on one of the Remigiusberg monks' Hufen, a Hufe or Hube being an area of land comparable to an oxgang, or a rural, settled place made up of worked cropland together with the attendant farmstead. The name Hüffweiler has also come up here and there, but only in 18th century documents, never in any very old ones. Researcher Ernst Christmann spoke of a settlement near rose hip shrubs (Hagebuttensträucher in German), while Dolch and Greule trace the village's name back to the personal name Hüffelin.