Burg
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Burgundy wine
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɝɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Burg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 68K
- NLNetherlands1 in 32Kas Braak
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 Burg 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)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 337 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
4,919 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
from ahd. burg, nd. borg 'castle, fortification; protection'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Burg is read(measured from records)
Burg is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English61%
Burgundy wine.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German9.8%
from ahd. burg, nd. borg 'castle, fortification; protection'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
castle
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
castle, fortification
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French8.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Burg in French.
- Dutch7.1%
synonym of burcht (“fortified place, fortress”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Burg 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 | — | 4,919 | 1 in 68K | 12K | Burg | 337 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Burg | 120 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 2,999as Bürgi | 1 in 2.8K | 3K | Burg | 55 |
| PL Poland | — | 2,874as Burak | 1 in 13K | 1.5K | Burg | 2 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 39K | 1K | — | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 554as Bu | 1 in 9.9K | 554 | Burg | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | #152 | 540as Braak | 1 in 32K | 1.3K | Burg | 108 |
| IL Israel | — | 403as בורג | 1 in 22K | 403 | — | 29 |
4,919 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"). 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)
Burg is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, alternative form of buirg (“borough”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Eugen Burgb. 1871DEGerman actor (1871–1944)
- Joseph G. Burgb. 1908DEGerman journalist (1908–1990)
- Josef Burgb. 1909ILIsraeli politician (1909-1999)
- Josef Burgb. 1912UAUkrainian Jewish writer (1912-2009)
- Ursula Burgb. 1919DEGerman actress (1919–1996)
- Abraham Burgb. 1955ILIsraeli politician
- Mark Burgb. 1959USAmerican actor
- Michael J. Burgb. 1963USAmerican actor
- Viola von der Burgb. 1965DEGerman actress
- Job ter Burgb. 1972NLDutch film editor
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 31 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.9K | #6,846 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.8K | #6,567 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.6K | #6,985 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 450 | #4,358 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 296 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 292 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 260 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 234 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 227 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 225 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 224 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 209 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Burg come from?
- from ahd. burg, nd. borg 'castle, fortification; protection' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What does the name Burg mean?
- In English, Burgundy wine.
- What are other forms of the name Burg?
- In the etymology graph, Borg, Bürger and Burgher are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Burg?
- A machine transcription gives /bɝɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Burg have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Burg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled burg.
- How common is the name Burg?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,919 people named Burg in 2010, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
- How common is Burg compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Burg is the 152nd most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Burg?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/burgThe 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, “Burg” — the 152nd most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.