Sonnberger
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname derived from a place name with Berg; bearer count 257 (153)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zɔnnbɛʁɡɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sonnberger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 254K
- CZCzechia1 in 823K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈320 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname derived from a place name with Berg; bearer count 257 (153).
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sonnberger 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 254K | — | Sonnberger | 61 |
| AT Austria | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Sonnberger | 39 |
| AU Australia | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Sonnberger | 22 |
| US United States | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 16M | listed | Sonnberger | 20 |
| CZ Czechia | 13 | 1 in 823K | 13 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | 2 |
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; MVČR — living population register 2017; 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 Sonnbergerb. 1957ATAustrian politician
- Markus Sonnbergerbotanist
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)
Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 13 | #69,661 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Sonnberger mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname derived from a place name with Berg; bearer count 257 (153). Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Sonnberger?
- A machine transcription gives /zɔnnbɛʁɡɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Sonnberger have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 316 people named Sonnberger in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sonnberger.
- How common is the name Sonnberger?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 13 people named Sonnberger, about 1 in 823 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sonnbergerThe 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, “Sonnberger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.