Königsberg
loc · Latin script
Meaning: From the city of Königsberg, former West Prussia, today Russia
Königsberg is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 875K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 545Kas Koenigsberg
- JMJamaica≈1 in 242K
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 Königsberg 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
- 194 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 242K (inferred from the name graph)
610 named Koenigsberg, 2010
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Koenigsberg in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 2 more, Konigsberg in NL Netherlands, IL Israel, JM Jamaica and 1 more and Kønigsberg in DK Denmark.
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)
From the city of Königsberg, former West Prussia, today Russia.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Königsberg 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 | 610as Koenigsberg | 1 in 545K | 631 | Koenigsberg | 194 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 524K | — | Koenigsberg | 19 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Konigsberg | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 875K | — | Königsberg | 27 |
| CA Canada | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 492K | — | Koenigsberg | 23 |
| IL Israel | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Konigsberg | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 382K | — | Konigsberg | 2 |
| PL Poland | 15 | 1 in 2.6M | 11 | Koenigsberg | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 14as Kønigsberg | 1 in 419K | 14 | Kønigsberg | 9 |
| IE Ireland | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 400K | — | Koenigsberg | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Konigsberg | 1 |
610 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Königsberg 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, Königsberg (the former capital of East Prussia), now known as Kaliningrad
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, Königsberg (the former capital of East Prussia)
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)
- Josef Königsbergb. 1924PLGerman journalist and author (1924–2023)
- Wojciech Königsbergb. 1983PLPolish historian
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 11 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 11 | #127,832 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #226,032 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Königsberg mean, and where does it come from?
- From the city of Königsberg, former West Prussia, today Russia. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- In which country does Königsberg have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 610 people named Koenigsberg, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Königsberg?
- In Poland, the national register counted 15 people named Königsberg in 2026, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Königsberg?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%B6nigsbergThe 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, “Königsberg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.