Greenberger

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Partly Americanized form of German and Ashkenazic Jewish Griinberger

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

Greenberger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 477K(measured from records)
  • ILIsrael1 in 15Kas גרינברגר
  • JMJamaica≈1 in 218K

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 Greenberger 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)

698 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
217 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 218K (inferred from the name graph)

Jamaica, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GreenbergerLatin(measured from records)
גרינברגרHebrew(measured from records)

Locally spelled גרינברגר in IL Israel, RO Romania, NO Norway and 2 more.

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)

Partly Americanized form of German and Ashkenazic Jewish Griinberger. As a Jewish surname it is ornamental, while the German name is habitational, from Grunberg (see Grunberg)+ the habitational suffix -er.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Greenberger 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 Greenberger is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6981 in 477K698Greenberger217
RO Romania≈670 est.≈1 in 32K—גרינברגר2
IL Israel588as גרינברגר1 in 15K588גרינברגר18
HU Hungary≈220 est.≈1 in 45K—גרינברגר3
NO Norway≈130 est.≈1 in 43K—גרינברגר1
LB Lebanon≈97 est.≈1 in 56K—גרינברגר1
JM Jamaica≈13 est.≈1 in 218K—Greenberger1

698 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Greenberger is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Green-Berger

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19001920194019601980Isabelle Greenberger, b. 1911Martin Greenberger, b. 1931Daniel Greenberger, b. 1932Marcia Devins Greenberger, b. 1946David Greenberger, b. 1954Robert Greenberger, b. 1958Sara Greenberger Rafferty, b. 1978

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 Greenberger,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Greenberger
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010698#32,865
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020690#35,190
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000608#35,106
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Greenberger mean, and where does it come from?
Partly Americanized form of German and Ashkenazic Jewish Griinberger. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Greenberger?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɹinbɝɡɝ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Greenberger have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 698 people named Greenberger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled greenberger.
How common is the name Greenberger?
In the United States, the national register counted 698 people named Greenberger in 2010, about 1 in 477 thousand residents.

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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, “Greenberger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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