Blumberg
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Blumberg’ or an invented Jewish name based on German Blume ‘flower’ + Berg ‘hill’ (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Blumberg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 3,185 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Blumberg is also written בלומבערג in Hebrew.
- DEGermany≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 89Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 104K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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
- 327 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
3,185 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Blumberg in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)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)‘person from Blumberg’ or an invented Jewish name based on German Blume ‘flower’ + Berg ‘hill’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Blumberg is found
(measured from records)Blumberg 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 | 3,185 | 1 in 104K | 3.3K | Blumberg | 327 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Blumberg | 92 |
| KE Kenya | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Blumberg | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Blumberg | 39 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Blumberg | 73 |
| EE Estonia | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 21 | Blumberg | 12 |
3,185 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; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Blumberg is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Baruch Samuel, VS biochemist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Croatian, američki liječnik, otkrio antigen koji stvara antitijela protiv hepatitisa B; za istraživanje porijekla i širenja virusnih zaraznih bolesti Nobelova nagrada za medicinu 1976 (s D. Carleton Gajdušekom)
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Baruch Samuel Blumbergb. 1925USAmerican physician, geneticist and Nobel prize winner (1925–2011)
- Diana Baumrindb. 1927USnot in their usual nameClinical and developmental psychologist (1927–2018)
- Stuart Blumbergb. 1969USAmerican director and screenwriter
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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Blumberg mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Blumberg’ or an invented Jewish name based on German Blume ‘flower’ + Berg ‘hill’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Blumberg?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Blumberg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled blumberg. After it come Germany, Kenya, South Africa and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Blumberg?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,185 people named Blumberg in 2010, about 1 in 104 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/blumbergThe 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, “Blumberg” — ranked 9163rd in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.