Himmelfarb
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ornamental name composed of German Himmel ‘heaven’, ‘sky’ + Farbe ‘color’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Himmelfarb is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Himmelfarb is also written הימלפארב in Hebrew.
- ARArgentina1 in 928Kas Himelfarb(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6Mas Himelfarb
- PLPoland1 in 7.7Mas Himelfarb
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Himmelfarb 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
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 928K (inferred from the name graph)
209 named Himelfarb, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina, as Himelfarb
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Himmelfarb in other scripts: Latin and Hebrew
(measured from records)Locally spelled Himelfarb in US United States, IL Israel.
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)ornamental name composed of German Himmel ‘heaven’, ‘sky’ + Farbe ‘color’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Himmelfarb is found
(measured from records)Himmelfarb 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 | 209as Himelfarb | 1 in 1.6M | 229 | Himelfarb | 7 |
| AR Argentina | 49as Himelfarb | 1 in 928K | 49 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 5as Himelfarb | 1 in 7.7M | 3 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1as Himelfarb | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
| IL Israel | — | — | — | Himelfarb | 9 |
209 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)- Milton Himmelfarbb. 1918USAmerican sociologist (1918–2006)
- Gertrude Himmelfarbb. 1922USAmerican historian (1922-2019)
- John Himmelfarbb. 1946USAmerican artist (born 1946)
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Himmelfarb mean, and where does it come from?
- ornamental name composed of German Himmel ‘heaven’, ‘sky’ + Farbe ‘color’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Himmelfarb?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 209 people named Himelfarb, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Argentina, Poland and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Himmelfarb most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Himmelfarb itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Argentina's: the national register counts about 1 in 928 thousand people named Himelfarb.
- How common is the name Himmelfarb?
- In the United States, the national register counted 209 people named Himelfarb in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million 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/himmelfarbThe 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, “Himmelfarb” — ranked 77742nd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.