Hochberg
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ornamental name from German hoch ‘high’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Hochberg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,240 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Hochberg is also written הוכברג in Hebrew.
- USUnited States1 in 268K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 310Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 330Kfew 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 Hochberg 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 259 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 94K (inferred from the name graph)
1,240 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Hochberg in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)Locally spelled הוכברג in IL Israel, DE Germany.
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 from German hoch ‘high’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Hochberg is found
(measured from records)Hochberg 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 | 1,240 | 1 in 268K | 1.2K | Hochberg | 259 |
| IL Israel | 455as הוכברג | 1 in 19K | 455 | הוכברג | 38 |
| DE Germany | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 290K | — | הוכברג | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 311K | — | Hochberg | 31 |
| CA Canada | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 325K | — | Hochberg | 29 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Hochberg | 1 |
1,240 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Hochberg 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.
In German, habitational name from any of various places so named, all in southern Germany.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Latvian, Putras muiža, kas atradās Valkas apriņķa Cirgaļu pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Yip Harburgb. 1896USnot in their usual nameAmerican lyricist (1896–1981)
- Alexander, 5th Prince of Pleßb. 1905PLnot in their usual nameGerman aristocrat and military officer (1905–1984)
- Victoria Hochbergb. 1952USwriter, 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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hochberg mean, and where does it come from?
- ornamental name from German hoch ‘high’ + Berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hochberg?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Hochberg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hochberg. After it come Israel, Germany, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Hochberg?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,240 people named Hochberg in 2010, about 1 in 268 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/hochbergThe 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, “Hochberg” — ranked 20629th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.