Sandberg
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sandberg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 46th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Person from a place name in Germany or Norway meaning ‘sand mountain’.
- SESweden1 in 579(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 40K
- NONorway1 in 1.2K
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 Sandberg 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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 357 (measured from records)
- 1 in 579 (inferred from the name graph)
17,620 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sundberg in SE Sweden, NO Norway.
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)
Person from a place name in Germany or Norway meaning ‘sand mountain’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sandberg 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #46 | 17,620 | 1 in 579 | 18K | Sundberg | 115 |
| US United States | — | 8,416 | 1 in 40K | 8.4K | Sandberg | 357 |
| BJ Benin | #191 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Sandberg | 6 |
| NO Norway | #936 | 4,610 | 1 in 1.2K | 4.6K | Sundberg | 50 |
| FI Finland | #568 | 4,425 | 1 in 1.3K | 4.4K | Sandberg | 22 |
| AX Åland Islands | — | 137as Sundberg | 1 in 191 | 137 | — | 4 |
17,620 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling sandberg. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Sandberg is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, mountain of sand
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)
- Willem Sandbergb. 1897NLDutch graphic designer, Director of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (1897-1984)
- Roland Sandbergb. 1946SESwedish footballer
- Ryne Sandbergb. 1959USAmerican baseball player and manager (1959–2025)
- Per Sandbergb. 1960NONorwegian politician
- Christine Cavanaughb. 1963USnot in their usual nameAmerican voice actress (1963–2014)
- Sheryl Sandbergb. 1969USAmerican technology executive, activist, and author
- Max Martinb. 1971SEnot in their usual nameSwedish record producer and songwriter (born 1971)
- Espen Sandbergb. 1971NONorwegian film director and advertising executive
- Anders Sandbergb. 1972SESwedish computer scientist, futurist, transhumanist, and philosopher
- David F. Sandbergb. 1981SESwedish filmmaker (born 1981)
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 31 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Sandberg mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from a place name in Germany or Norway meaning ‘sand mountain’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Sandberg have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Sandberg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sundberg.
- Where is Sandberg most common?
- Sandberg is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 579 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sandberg?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 17,620 people named Sandberg, about 1 in 579 residents.
- How common is Sandberg compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Sandberg is the 46th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sandberg?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sandbergThe same 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), 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, “Sandberg” — the 46th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.