Golberg
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the name of a wood near Aken in Anhalt, but the surname is also taken to be a variant of Goldberg
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɡoʊɫbɝɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Golberg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uzbekistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 26Kas גולברג
- NONorway1 in 41K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Golberg itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Uzbekistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- 1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈500 named גולברג, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled גולברג in IL Israel, LV Latvia, UZ Uzbekistan.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the name of a wood near Aken in Anhalt, but the surname is also taken to be a variant of Goldberg.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Golberg 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | גולברג | 2 |
| IL Israel | 331as גולברג | 1 in 26K | 331 | גולברג | 18 |
| US United States | 289 | 1 in 1.2M | 411 | Golberg | 148 |
| LV Latvia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | גולברג | 2 |
| NO Norway | 132 | 1 in 41K | 132 | — | 5 |
| EE Estonia | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 16 | — | 3 |
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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)- Mécislas Golbergb. 1869FRFrench essayist, journalist, playwright, poet and art critic (1869-1907)
- Scheindel Zummerb. 1883CZnot in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1883)
- Boris Golbergb. 1922b.27 January 1922 d.28 June 1980
- Argo Golbergb. 1982EEEstonian athletics competitor (born 1982)
- Pål Golbergb. 1990NONorwegian cross-country skier
- Elea Golbergb. 2005DEGerman association football player
- Shari GolbergCACanadian academic and interfaith dialogue facilitator
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 411 | #48,293 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 398 | #55,632 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 289 | #68,122 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 132 | #11,908 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 16 | #7,113 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 12 | #9,071 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Golberg mean, and where does it come from?
- from the name of a wood near Aken in Anhalt, but the surname is also taken to be a variant of Goldberg. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Golberg?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡoʊɫbɝɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Golberg have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 503 people named גולברג in Uzbekistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Golberg most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Golberg is densest in Norway — about 1 in 41 thousand people — even though Uzbekistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Golberg?
- In the United States, the national register counted 289 people named Golberg in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Golberg?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/golbergThe 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, “Golberg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.