Culbertson
surname · Latin script
Meaning: son of Culbert, a Norman form of the Germanic personal name meaning literally ‘helm-bright’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkəɫbɝtsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Culbertson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 32K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 5.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
10,240 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
son of Culbert, a Norman form of the Germanic personal name meaning literally ‘helm-bright’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Culbertson 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 | 10,240 | 1 in 32K | 10K | Culbertson | 19 |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
| RU Russia | — | — | — | Culbertson | 3 |
10,240 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; MVČR — living population register 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William Constantine Culbertsonb. 1825USAmerican politician (1825–1906)
- Anne Virginia Culbertsonb. 1857USAmerican writer, poet, elocutionist (1857-1918)
- Ely Culbertsonb. 1891USAmerican contract bridge entrepreneur (1891–1955)
- Josephine Culbertsonb. 1898USAmerican bridge player and teacher (1898-1956)
- William Culbertson IIIb. 1905USAmerican bishop (1905-1971)
- John Culbertsonb. 1921USAmerican economist (1921-2001)
- James Culbertsonb. 1938USAmerican diplomat
- Philip Culbertsonb. 1944NZNew Zealand theologian
- Frank L. Culbertsonb. 1949USAstronaut, United States Navy captain
- Brian Culbertsonb. 1973USAmerican musician
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 9 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 10K | #3,492 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 10K | #3,235 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.7K | #3,583 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #175,170 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2 | #24,111 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Culbertson mean, and where does it come from?
- son of Culbert, a Norman form of the Germanic personal name meaning literally ‘helm-bright’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Culbertson?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkəɫbɝtsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Culbertson have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Culbertson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled culbertson.
- Where is Culbertson most common?
- Culbertson is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 32 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Culbertson?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,240 people named Culbertson in 2010, about 1 in 32 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/culbertsonThe 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, “Culbertson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.