Rothenberg
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rothenberg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: place so called in W Bavaria, or possibly from some other place similarly named, e.g.
- USUnited States1 in 107K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 734K
- BEBelgium1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Rothenberg 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
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 107K (inferred from the name graph)
3,112 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
place so called in W Bavaria, or possibly from some other place similarly named, e.g. one in Upper Lusatia in East Germany. The placename is from OHG rot red (with the weak dat. ending -en, originally used after a preposition and def. art.) + Berg hill. Rosset see Rouse
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rothenberg 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 | 3,112 | 1 in 107K | 3.1K | Rothenberg | 49 |
| BR Brazil | 68as Rothenburg | 1 in 3.1M | 68 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 8 | 1 in 1.5M | 8 | Rothenberg | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 8 | 1 in 734K | 8 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 6 | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | — |
3,112 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
- Jerome Rothenbergb. 1931USAmerican poet (1931–2024)
- Susan Rothenbergb. 1945USAmerican artist (1945-2020)
- Ned Rothenbergb. 1956USAmerican composer
- David Rothenbergb. 1962USJazz Musician and Professor of philosophy and music
- Karly Rothenbergb. 1962USAmerican actress
- Jason Rothenbergb. 1967USAmerican television producer and writer
- Andrew Rothenbergb. 1969USAmerican actor
- Adam Rothenbergb. 1975USAmerican actor
- Dave Daveb. 1976USnot in their usual nameAmerican artist and burn survivor (1976-2018)
- Jessica Rotheb. 1987USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.1K | #10,352 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #9,916 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,175 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 8 | #80,162 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #47,950 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #50,295 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
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 Rothenberg come from?
- place so called in W Bavaria, or possibly from some other place similarly named, e.g. one in Upper Lusatia in East Germany. The placename is from OHG rot red (with the weak dat. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- What does the name Rothenberg mean?
- Recorded meaning: place so called in W Bavaria, or possibly from some other place similarly named, e.g.
- In which country does Rothenberg have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Rothenberg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rothenberg.
- Where is Rothenberg most common?
- Rothenberg is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 107 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rothenberg?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,112 people named Rothenberg in 2010, about 1 in 107 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rothenbergThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Rothenberg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.