Golberg
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the name of a wood near Aken in Anhalt, but the surname is also taken to be a variant of Goldberg (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/xolbeɾɡ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Golberg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country. Golberg is also written גולברג in Hebrew.
- NONorway1 in 41K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 62K
- CACanada≈1 in 340Kfew records
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 Golberg itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- 1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
331 named גולברג, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Golberg in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)Locally spelled גולברג in IL Israel, AR Argentina.
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.
How to pronounce Golberg
- Spanish:/xolbeɾɡ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the name of a wood near Aken in Anhalt, but the surname is also taken to be a variant of Goldberg.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Golberg is found
(measured from records)Golberg 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | 331as גולברג | 1 in 26K | 331 | גולברג | 18 |
| US United States | 289 | 1 in 1.2M | 411 | Golberg | 148 |
| NO Norway | 132 | 1 in 41K | 132 | — | 5 |
| CA Canada | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 337K | — | Golberg | 52 |
| AR Argentina | 96 | 1 in 474K | 96 | גולברג | 3 |
| EE Estonia | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 62K | 16 | — | 3 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Golberg | 1 |
331 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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 2000; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)- Mécislas Golbergb. 1869FRFrench essayist, journalist, playwright, poet and art critic (1869-1907)
- Pål Golbergb. 1990NONorwegian cross-country skier
- Shari GolbergCACanadian academic and interfaith dialogue facilitator
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Golberg mean, and where does it come from?
- from the name of a wood near Aken in Anhalt, but the surname is also taken to be a variant of Goldberg. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Golberg?
- In Spanish /xolbeɾɡ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Golberg?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 331 people named גולברג, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Norway, Canada and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Golberg most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Golberg is densest in Norway — about 1 in 41 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Golberg?
- In the United States, the national register counted 289 people named Golberg in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Golberg?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/golbergThe 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, “Golberg” — ranked 4022nd in Israel (CBS Israel, 2017). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.