Birkenfeld
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname with Birke as determinant; 379 bearers, Taunus
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Birkenfeld is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 914K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.2M
- PLPoland1 in 1.5M
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 Birkenfeld 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
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 914K (inferred from the name graph)
364 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled בירקנפלד in IL Israel, LB Lebanon, RO Romania and 1 more.
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)
Toponymic surname with Birke as determinant; 379 bearers, Taunus.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Birkenfeld 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 | 364 | 1 in 914K | 380 | — | 11 |
| RO Romania | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | בירקנפלד | 2 |
| IL Israel | 49as בירקנפלד | 1 in 177K | 49 | בירקנפלד | 14 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | בירקנפלד | 1 |
| PL Poland | 25 | 1 in 1.5M | 14 | בירקנפלד | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 14 | 1 in 1.2M | 14 | — | 2 |
364 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 2020; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Dorothea Catherine Countess Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweilerb. 1634DECountess of Nassau-Ottweiler (1634-1715)
- Christian IIIb. 1674DEnot in their usual nameCount Palatine of Zweibrücken from 1731 to 1735
- Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrückenb. 1722DEnot in their usual nameGerman noble (1722-1775)
- Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrückenb. 1724DEnot in their usual nameFather of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (1724-1767)
- Countess Palatine Christiane Henriette of Zweibrückenb. 1725FRnot in their usual namePrincess of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1725-1816)
- Günther Birkenfeldb. 1901DEGerman journalist, translator and literary editor
- Wolfgang Birkenfeldb. 1932DEGerman historian (1932-2011)
- Daniela Birkenfeldb. 1959DEGerman politician and lawyer
- Bradley C. Birkenfeldb. 1965USAmerican banker and whistleblower
- Inga Birkenfeldb. 1978DEGerman actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 380 | #57,805 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 364 | #56,195 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 346 | #55,481 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #108,976 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 14 | #56,417 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 11 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 11 | #125,596 |
| 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 Birkenfeld mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname with Birke as determinant; 379 bearers, Taunus. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- In which country does Birkenfeld have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 364 people named Birkenfeld, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Birkenfeld most common?
- Birkenfeld is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 914 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Birkenfeld?
- In the United States, the national register counted 364 people named Birkenfeld in 2010, about 1 in 914 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/birkenfeldThe 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, “Birkenfeld”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.