Birenbaum
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbaɪɹənbaʊm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Birenbaum 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.
- ILIsrael1 in 9Kas בירנבאום(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 104Kas Birnbaum
- UYUruguay1 in 147K
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 Birenbaum 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- 1 in 147K (inferred from the name graph)
3,211 named Birnbaum, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled בירנבאום in IL Israel, LB Lebanon, HU Hungary, בירנבוים in PL Poland and Birnbaum in RO Romania.
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)
Variant of Birnbaum, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.
Sources 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Birenbaum 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 | — | 3,211as Birnbaum | 1 in 104K | 3.2K | Birenbaum | 163 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Birnbaum | 2 |
| IL Israel | #659 | 968as בירנבאום | 1 in 9K | 968 | בירנבאום | 30 |
| PL Poland | — | 162as Birnbaum | 1 in 236K | 92 | בירנבוים | 3 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | בירנבאום | 1 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | בירנבאום | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 41 | 1 in 5.2M | 41 | Birenbaum | 25 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 23 | 1 in 147K | 23 | Birenbaum | 11 |
3,211 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling birnbaum. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Halina Birenbaumb. 1929PLPolish-born Holocaust survivor, Israeli writer, poet, translator and activist (b. 1929)
- Claude Birenbaumb. 1954LULuxembourgish association football player
- Eliahu Birnbaumb. 1958ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli rabbi
- Guy Birenbaumb. 1961FRFrench editor and publisher
- Raul Birenbaumb. 1989BRLuxembourgian-Brazilian basketball player
- Daphna Birenbaum-CarmeliILIsraeli medical sociologist
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)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 433 | #48,717 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 429 | #46,678 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 422 | #52,998 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 41 | #120,411 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 23 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 17 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 17 | #97,684 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 16 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 16 | #101,016 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Birenbaum mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Birnbaum, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Birenbaum?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbaɪɹənbaʊm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Birenbaum have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Birnbaum, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Birenbaum most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Birenbaum is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 147 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Birenbaum?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 41 people named Birenbaum, about 1 in 5.2 million residents.
- How common is Birenbaum compared with other names?
- In Israel, Birenbaum is the 659th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/birenbaumThe 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, “Birenbaum” — the 659th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.