Grinberg
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ornamental name composed of an unexplained first element + berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɡɾiŋbeɾɡ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Grinberg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Israel it is the 70th most common surname.
- ARArgentina1 in 87K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 230Kfew records
- PLPoland1 in 244K
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 Grinberg 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 260 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
20,897 named Greenberg, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled גרינברג in IL Israel, AR Argentina, Гринберг in RU Russia and Грінберг in UA Ukraine.
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)ornamental name composed of an unexplained first element + berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Grinberg 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 | — | 20,897as Greenberg | 1 in 16K | 21K | Grinberg | 260 |
| IL Israel | #70 | 7,997as גרינברג | 1 in 1.1K | 8K | גרינברג | 68 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Гринберг | 125 |
| AR Argentina | — | 523 | 1 in 87K | 523 | גרינברג | 3 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Грінберг | 28 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 72as Grunberg | 1 in 47K | 72 | — | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Grinberg | 4 |
20,897 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling greenberg. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)- Clement Greenbergb. 1909USnot in their usual nameAmerican essayist and visual art critic (1909-1994)
- Joseph Greenbergb. 1915USnot in their usual nameAmerican linguist
- Gerald B. Greenbergb. 1936USnot in their usual nameAmerican film editor (1936-2017)
- Adam Greenbergb. 1939USnot in their usual nameAmerican cinematographer (1937–2025)
- Richard Alan Greenbergb. 1947USnot in their usual nameAmerican graphic designer and visual effects artist, designer of main titles
- Richard Greenbergb. 1958USnot in their usual nameAmerican playwright and television writer (1958–2025)
- Anouk Grinbergb. 1963FRFrench actress
- Matt Greenbergb. 1964USnot in their usual nameAmerican film producer and screenwriter
- Bryan Greenbergb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and musician
- Rob GreenbergUSnot in their usual nameAmerican writer, producer and director
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,899 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,675 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,311 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 523 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 61 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Grinberg mean, and where does it come from?
- ornamental name composed of an unexplained first element + berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Grinberg?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ɡɾiŋbeɾɡ/; in Russian /ɟrʲɪn̪bʲɪrk/; in Portuguese /ɡɾĩbɛɾɡ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Grinberg have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Greenberg, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Grinberg?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 523 people named Grinberg, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
- How common is Grinberg compared with other names?
- In Israel, Grinberg is the 70th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grinbergThe 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, “Grinberg” — the 70th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.