Furberg
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/fɝbɝɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Furberg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 21K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 24K
- BJBenin≈1 in 32K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
428 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
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)Furberg 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.
428 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)- Sven Furbergb. 1920NONorwegian biologist and professor (1920-1983)
- Petter Furbergb. 1923NONorwegian politician (1923-1999)
- Kjell Furbergb. 1953SESwedish gardener and cinema theater historian
- Lena Furbergb. 1957SESwedish comics artist
- Anna Furbergb. 1990SESwedish association football player
- Maria FurbergSEresearcher
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 428 | #2,137 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 266 | #5,835 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 9 | #43,364 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Furberg?
- A machine transcription gives /fɝbɝɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Furberg have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 428 people named Furberg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled furberg.
- Where is Furberg most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Furberg is densest in Norway — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Furberg?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 428 people named Furberg, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Furberg?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/furbergThe 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, “Furberg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.