Hamburg
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Likely locational/residence surname on page; not assigned an office/trait here
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hamburg is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 92K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 105K
- USUnited States1 in 153K
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 Hamburg 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)
- Sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 92K (inferred from the name graph)
2,177 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Likely locational/residence surname on page; not assigned an office/trait here.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hamburg 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 | 2,177 | 1 in 153K | 2.2K | Hamburg | 38 |
| NL Netherlands | 187 | 1 in 92K | 187 | — | 5 |
| BR Brazil | 167as Hamburgo | 1 in 1.3M | 167 | Hamburg | 18 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Hamburg | 7 |
| FI Finland | 53 | 1 in 105K | 53 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 45 | 1 in 238K | 45 | — | — |
2,177 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); MVČR — living population register 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Hamburg is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name from the great city and port at the mouth of the river Elbe, named with the Germanic elements ham ‘water meadow’ + burg ‘fortress’, ‘fortified town’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, Hamburg (the second-largest city in and simultaneously a state of Germany)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Toponymischer Familienname zum Bischofssitz Hamburg an der Unterelbe. Hamburg 244, Hamburger 550, evtl. auch Hambürger 54.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In English, J. city, Germany
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Slovak, Hamburg (the capital city of the state of Hamburg, Germany)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lisa Hamburgb. 1890DEGerman classical archaeologist (1890-1942), murdered in the Holocaust
- Paul Amburb. 1904EEnot in their usual nameEstonian literary scholar and editor (1904-1974)
- Morris Hamburgb. 1922USAmerican statistician
- Beatrix Hamburgb. 1923USAmerican psychiatrist (1923-2018)
- David A. Hamburgb. 1925USAmerican psychiatrist
- Daniel Hamburgb. 1948USAmerican Congressman
- Roger van Hamburgb. 1954NLDutch swimmer
- Margaret Hamburgb. 1955USAmerican physician and medical/public health administrator
- John Hamburgb. 1970USAmerican screenwriter and film director
- Julia Willie Hamburgb. 1986DEGerman politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,874 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #13,048 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,133 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 187 | #11,079 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 53 | #21,514 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 45 | #31,637 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 44 | #11,282 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20 | #194,891 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
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 Hamburg mean, and where does it come from?
- Likely locational/residence surname on page; not assigned an office/trait here. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- In which country does Hamburg have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Hamburg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hamburg.
- Where is Hamburg most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hamburg is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 92 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hamburg?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,177 people named Hamburg in 2010, about 1 in 153 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hamburgThe 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, “Hamburg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.