Berenbaum

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Berenbaum is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Birnbaum, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 781K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.5M
  • ARArgentina1 in 3.2M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

226 people, 2010

Sources
48 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 781K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Variant of Birnbaum, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.

Sources 1

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Berenbaum counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Berenbaum is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2261 in 1.5M226Berenbaum7
BE Belgium151 in 781K15—2
AR Argentina141 in 3.2M14——
FR France———Berenbaum48
CA Canada———Berenbaum3

226 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Berenbaum is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hebrew surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Russia, United States, Ukraine

    Also written ברנבאום

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Беренбаум

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19001920194019601980Abe Berenbaum, b. 1901Michael Berenbaum, b. 1945May R. Berenbaum, b. 1953David Berenbaum, b. 1970

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Berenbaum mean, and where does it come from?
Variant of Birnbaum, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Berenbaum have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 226 people named Berenbaum, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled berenbaum.
Where is Berenbaum most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Berenbaum is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 781 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Berenbaum?
In the United States, the national register counted 226 people named Berenbaum in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Berenbaum”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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