Landsberg
loc · Latin script
Meaning: ornamental name composed of the possessive case of land ‘land’, ‘country’ -i- berg ‘mountain’, or an adoption of the German name (see 1)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Landsberg is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 511K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 30Kas לנדסברג
- SESweden1 in 176K
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 Landsberg 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- 1 in 176K (inferred from the name graph)
651 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled לנדסברג in IL Israel, PL Poland, RO Romania and 2 more and Landesberg in US United States.
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 the possessive case of land ‘land’, ‘country’ -i- berg ‘mountain’, or an adoption of the German name (see 1).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Landsberg 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 | 651 | 1 in 511K | 657 | Landesberg | 142 |
| RO Romania | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | לנדסברג | 2 |
| IL Israel | 285as לנדסברג | 1 in 30K | 285 | לנדסברג | 21 |
| PL Poland | 135 | 1 in 284K | 73 | לנדסברג | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 58 | 1 in 176K | 58 | — | — |
| LB Lebanon | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | לנדסברג | 1 |
| LV Latvia | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | לנדסברג | 3 |
651 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling landsberg. 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 2020; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Landsberg 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.
habitational name from any of several places so named.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
na Espanha era Kalahora, na Polonia mudou para Kaliphari, em seguida para Posener-Kaliphari e por fim para Landsberg
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
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)
- Georg Landsbergb. 1865DEmathematician (1865–1912)
- Otto Landsbergb. 1869DEJustice Minister of Germany (1869-1957)
- Grigory Landsbergb. 1890RUSoviet physicist
- Kurt Landsbergb. 1892DEGerman politician (1892-1964)
- Paul Ludwig Landsbergb. 1901DEGerman-Jewish philosopher (1901-1944)
- Helmut Landsbergb. 1906DEclimatologist, geophysicist, and meteorologist (1906–1985)
- Michele Landsbergb. 1939CAauthor, journalist, feminist, social activist (born 1939)
- David Landsbergb. 1945USAmerican actor, writer and producer (1945-2018)
- Michael Landsbergb. 1958CACanadian sports journalist
- Johan Landsbergb. 1974SESwedish tennis player
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 22 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 657 | #36,629 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 651 | #34,707 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 612 | #34,904 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 73 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 73 | #38,231 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 62 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 62 | #42,683 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 58 | #11,236 |
| 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Landsberg mean, and where does it come from?
- ornamental name composed of the possessive case of land ‘land’, ‘country’ -i- berg ‘mountain’, or an adoption of the German name (see 1). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Landsberg have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 651 people named Landsberg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled landesberg.
- Where is Landsberg most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Landsberg is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 176 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Landsberg?
- In the United States, the national register counted 651 people named Landsberg in 2010, about 1 in 511 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/landsbergThe 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, “Landsberg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.