Berenson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: son of Ber, a Yiddish male personal name meaning literally 'bear'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈbɛɹɪnsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Berenson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 442K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 175K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 190K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 236 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 175K (inferred from the name graph)
752 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)son of Ber, a Yiddish male personal name meaning literally 'bear'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Berenson 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 752 | 1 in 442K | 774 | Berenson | 236 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 332K | — | Berenson | 43 |
| MA Morocco | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 190K | — | Berenson | 5 |
| IT Italy | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 539K | — | Berenson | 4 |
| CA Canada | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 377K | — | Berenson | 32 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Berenson | 4 |
| IL Israel | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 316K | — | Berenson | 21 |
| EE Estonia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 175K | listed | — | 1 |
752 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mary Berensonb. 1864USAmerican art historian
- Bernard Berensonb. 1865USAmerican art critic and collector (1865-1959)
- Senda Berenson Abbottb. 1868USRussian-American Hall of Fame basketball pioneer (1868–1954)
- Zvi Berensonb. 1907ILIsraeli jurist
- Red Berensonb. 1939CACanadian ice hockey player
- Marisa Berensonb. 1947USAmerican actress and model (b. 1947)
- Berry Berensonb. 1948USAmerican actress (1948–2001)
- Lori Berensonb. 1969UStranslator, unpublished journalist
- Alex Berensonb. 1973USAmerican writer
- Shaked BerensonUSAmerican film producer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 774 | #28,912 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 752 | #30,916 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 704 | #34,625 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Berenson mean, and where does it come from?
- son of Ber, a Yiddish male personal name meaning literally 'bear'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Berenson?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɛɹɪnsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Berenson have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 752 people named Berenson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled berenson.
- How common is the name Berenson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 752 people named Berenson in 2010, about 1 in 442 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/berensonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Berenson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.