Muhlenberg
surname · Latin script
Meaning: county, KY; college, PA (Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/ˈmjuːlənbəɹɡ/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Muhlenberg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.8Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- BRBrazil1 in 3.9M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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 (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8M (inferred from the name graph)
≈120 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Muhlenberg
- English:/ˈmjuːlənbəɹɡ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/mulenbeɾɡ/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/mulẽbɛɾɡ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)county, KY; college, PA
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Muhlenberg is found
(measured from records)Muhlenberg 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 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | listed | Muhlenberg | 85 |
| BR Brazil | 54 | 1 in 3.9M | 54 | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Muhlenberg | 6 |
| DE Germany | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Muhlenberg | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Muhlenberg | 3 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Muhlenberg | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Muhlenberg | 12 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Muhlenberg | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Peter Muhlenbergb. 1746USAmerican politician (1746-1807)
- Frederick Muhlenbergb. 1750USAmerican politician and first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1750-1801)
- Henry Muhlenbergb. 1753USUnited States botanist and Lutheran clergyman (1753-1815)
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Muhlenberg mean, and where does it come from?
- county, KY; college, PA Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Muhlenberg?
- It depends on the language: in English /ˈmjuːlənbəɹɡ/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /mulenbeɾɡ/; in Portuguese /mulẽbɛɾɡ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Muhlenberg?
- Mondonomo estimates about 121 people named Muhlenberg in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled muhlenberg. After it come Brazil, South Africa, Germany and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Muhlenberg?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 54 people named Muhlenberg, about 1 in 3.9 million 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/muhlenbergThe 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, “Muhlenberg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.