Hertzberg
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Hertzberg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: respelling of German Herzberg.
- SESweden1 in 17K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 17K
- DKDenmark1 in 46K
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 Hertzberg itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
1,939 named Herzberg, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled הרצברג in IL Israel, PL Poland and Herzberg in US United States.
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)respelling of German Herzberg.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hertzberg 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 | 1,939as Herzberg | 1 in 172K | 1.9K | Herzberg | 53 |
| SE Sweden | 605 | 1 in 17K | 605 | — | — |
| IL Israel | 383as הרצברג | 1 in 23K | 383 | הרצברג | 37 |
| NO Norway | 316 | 1 in 17K | 316 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 238as Herzberg | 1 in 161K | 128 | הרצברג | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 128 | 1 in 46K | 128 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 99 | 1 in 56K | 99 | — | 2 |
1,939 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)- Gustav Hertzbergb. 1826DEGerman historian (1826–1907)
- Rafael Hertzbergb. 1845FIFinland Swedish writer, translator, historian, businessman, inventor and publicist (1845-1896)
- Paul Hertzbergb. 1901USAmerican film producer
- Georg Krogb. 1915NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian speed skater, skating executive and lawyer
- Arthur Hertzbergb. 1921USAmerican rabbi and historian (1921–2006)
- Sidney Hertzbergb. 1922USAmerican basketball player (1922–2005)
- Niels Hertzbergb. 1941NONorwegian sports official (1941–2013)
- Hendrik Hertzbergb. 1943USAmerican journalist
- George Hertzbergb. 1972USAmerican actor
- Benji Gregoryb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1978–2024)
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 977 | #24,083 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 949 | #25,902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 926 | #27,561 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 605 | #1,611 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 316 | #4,815 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 128 | #4,240 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 99 | #12,849 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 46 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #141,821 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #224,581 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Hertzberg mean, and where does it come from?
- respelling of German Herzberg. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hertzberg have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Herzberg, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hertzberg most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hertzberg is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hertzberg?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 605 people named Hertzberg, about 1 in 17 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/hertzbergThe 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, “Hertzberg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.