Sorg
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Personal characteristic surname from mhd
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈsɔɹɡ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sorg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 115K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 23K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 34K
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
- 259 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Personal characteristic surname from mhd. sorge/sorgen ‘bekümmert, sorgenvoll sein’ (worried/anxious).
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sorg 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 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | — | 3 |
| US United States | 2,903 | 1 in 115K | 2.9K | Sorg | 259 |
| IT Italy | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Sorg | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 207K | 22 | Sorg | 27 |
| CH Switzerland | 244 | 1 in 34K | 244 | Sorg | 8 |
| IE Ireland | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Sorg | 3 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Sorg | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Sorg | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the dfa-band-5 register. 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)
Sorg is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, imperative singular of sorgen (‘to worry’, ‘to care’)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Personenname aus mhd. sorge „Sorge, Besorgnis, Kummer, Furcht“; meist für einen sorgenbeladenen Menschen, auch fürsorglich/Vormund; Beleg: 1496
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In Swedish, sorrow, sadness (usually due to loss or other misfortune, often someone's death)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, sorrow, grief, sadness
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, care; worry; concern
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)
- Jean-Jacques Sorgb. 1743FRFrench painter (1743-1821)
- Paul J. Sorgb. 1840USTobacco merchant and politician (1840–1902)
- Herbert Peter Sorgb. 1911USUnited States federal judge (1911–1979)
- Theo Sorgb. 1929DEGerman protestant theologian and bishop (1929–2017)
- Manfred Sorgb. 1938DEGerman theologian
- Christian Sorgb. 1941FRFrench painter
- Eugen Sorgb. 1949CHSwiss journalist
- Marcus Sorgb. 1965DEGerman association football player and manager
- Oliver Sorgb. 1990DEGerman footballer
- Rolf SorgLUGerman-born entrepreneur
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 21 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.9K | #10,959 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.7K | #10,837 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,309 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 244 | #5,284 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 22 | #85,116 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Sorg come from?
- Personal characteristic surname from mhd. sorge/sorgen ‘bekümmert, sorgenvoll sein’ (worried/anxious). Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- How do you pronounce Sorg?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsɔɹɡ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Sorg mean?
- Recorded meaning: Personal characteristic surname from mhd.
- In which country does Sorg have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Sorg in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sorg?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,903 people named Sorg in 2010, about 1 in 115 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sorgThe 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, “Sorg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.