Emberg

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɛmbɝɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Emberg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Somalia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BWBotswana≈1 in 51K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SOSomalia≈1 in 52K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 88K

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.

Somalia (inferred from the name graph)

≈230 people, est.

Sources
99 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)

Botswana, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Emberg 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.

Where Emberg is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SO Somalia—≈230 est.≈1 in 52K—Emberg1
US United States—1221 in 2.7M122Emberg99
BW Botswana#345≈46 est.≈1 in 51K—Emberg1
CA Canada—≈25 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Emberg18
GB United Kingdom—≈21 est.≈1 in 3.1M—Emberg5
EE Estonia—≈14 est.≈1 in 88K11Emberg2
JM Jamaica—≈11 est.≈1 in 264K—Emberg1
FI Finland—≈10 est.≈1 in 555K—Emberg2

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; 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).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

FormalDear Emberg,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Emberg
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010122#137,327
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000112#137,816
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202097#156,449
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—11#9,781
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—10#10,905
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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

How do you pronounce Emberg?
A machine transcription gives /ɛmbɝɡ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Emberg have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 226 people named Emberg in Somalia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled emberg.
How common is the name Emberg?
In the United States, the national register counted 122 people named Emberg in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
How common is Emberg compared with other names?
In Botswana, Emberg is the 345th most common surname of 987 surnames recorded there.

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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/emberg

The 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, “Emberg” — the 345th most common surname in Botswana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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