Ehrenfeld
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a borough of w:Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɛɹɪnfɛɫd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ehrenfeld is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 676K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- PLPoland1 in 1.2M
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 Ehrenfeld 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
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 676K (inferred from the name graph)
492 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 Эренфельд in RU Russia.
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)
a borough of w:Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ehrenfeld 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 | 492 | 1 in 676K | 579 | Ehrenfeld | 11 |
| PL Poland | 31 | 1 in 1.2M | 17 | — | 1 |
| RU Russia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 66M | — | Эренфельд | 15 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
492 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sámuel Ehrenfeldb. 1835SK(1835–1883) Slovakian-German rabbi
- Nathan Ehrenfeldb. 1843SKChief rabbi of Prague (1843–1912)
- Adolf Ehrenfeldb. 1857ATHolocaust victim (born 1857)
- Salomon Ehrenfeldb. 1878CZHolocaust victim (born 1878)
- Johanna Sierckeb. 1885ATnot in their usual nameAustrian poet
- Shmuel Ehrenfeldb. 1891AT(1891-1980) Mattersdorfer Rabbi
- Michel Gyarmathyb. 1908HUnot in their usual nameHungarian director (1908–1996)
- Asher Ehrenfeldb. 1947RORomanian rabbi
- Rachel Ehrenfeldb. 1948American journalist
- Jesse M. Ehrenfeldb. 1978USAmerican physician, anesthesiologist
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 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 579 | #40,697 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 492 | #43,811 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 427 | #46,839 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 17 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 17 | #98,130 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #109,612 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #175,899 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
| 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 Ehrenfeld mean, and where does it come from?
- a borough of w:Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ehrenfeld?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɛɹɪnfɛɫd/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ehrenfeld have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 492 people named Ehrenfeld, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ehrenfeld.
- Where is Ehrenfeld most common?
- Ehrenfeld is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 676 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ehrenfeld?
- In the United States, the national register counted 492 people named Ehrenfeld in 2010, about 1 in 676 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ehrenfeldThe 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, “Ehrenfeld”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.