Hamburger
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hamburger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In English, recorded as A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, usually also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.
- DEGermany≈1 in 1M(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 60K
- DKDenmark1 in 68K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- 1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
1,575 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Hamburg or one of the different Homburgs, Baden 1809.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hamburger is read(measured from records)
Hamburger is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English66%
A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, usually also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German12%
Likely locational/residence surname on page; not assigned an office/trait here.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Hamburg
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
of Hamburg
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish6.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hamburger in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hamburger 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 | 1,575 | 1 in 211K | 1.6K | Hamburger | 106 |
| CH Switzerland | 141 | 1 in 60K | 141 | Hamburger | 26 |
| NL Netherlands | 131 | 1 in 132K | 131 | Hamburger | 15 |
| DK Denmark | 86 | 1 in 68K | 86 | — | — |
| DE Germany | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Hamburger | 86 |
| BE Belgium | 19 | 1 in 617K | 19 | Hamburger | 3 |
1,575 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hamburger is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From Hamburg or one of the different Homburgs, Baden 1809.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
habitational name for someone from Hamburg.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Viktor Hamburgerb. 1900USGerman embryologist (1900-2001)
- Rudolf Hamburgerb. 1903DEGerman architect (1903–1980)
- Ruth Wernerb. 1907DEnot in their usual nameGerman spy (1907-2000)
- Jean Hamburgerb. 1909FRFrench physician (1909–1992)
- Erna Hamburgerb. 1911CHSwiss engineer (1911-1988)
- Michael Hamburgerb. 1924GBBritish translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic (1924–2007)
- Maik Hamburgerb. 1931DEGerman author, translator and dramaturge (1931–2020)
- Michel Bergerb. 1947FRnot in their usual nameFrench singer and songwriter (1947–1992)
- Bo Hamburgerb. 1970DKDanish cyclist (born 1970)
- Raphael Hamburgerb. 1981FRFrench music producer and music supervisor
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,784 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,158 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,674 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 141 | #8,351 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 131 | #15,235 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 86 | #6,342 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 19 | #49,058 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Where does the name Hamburger come from?
- From Hamburg or one of the different Homburgs, Baden 1809. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- What does the name Hamburger mean?
- In English, A hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, usually also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both.
- In which country does Hamburger have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Hamburger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hamburger.
- Where is Hamburger most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hamburger is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 60 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hamburger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,575 people named Hamburger in 2010, about 1 in 211 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, “Hamburger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.