Sundberg
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Sundberg 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: Invented Swedish name meaning literally ‘hill by a strait’.
- SESweden1 in 579as Sandberg(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 40Kas Sandberg
- AXÅland Islands1 in 191
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 Sundberg 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 191 (inferred from the name graph)
17,620 named Sandberg
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Åland Islands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sandberg in US United States, FI Finland, BJ Benin.
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)
Invented Swedish name meaning literally ‘hill by a strait’.
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)
Sundberg 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 | 17,620as Sandberg | 1 in 579 | 18K | Sundberg | 115 |
| US United States | — | 8,416as Sandberg | 1 in 40K | 8.4K | Sandberg | 357 |
| BJ Benin | #191 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Sandberg | 6 |
| NO Norway | #936 | 4,610as Sandberg | 1 in 1.2K | 4.6K | Sundberg | 50 |
| FI Finland | #568 | 4,425as Sandberg | 1 in 1.3K | 4.4K | Sandberg | 22 |
| AX Åland Islands | — | 137 | 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anton Niklas Sundbergb. 1818SEChurch of Sweden bishop (1818-1900)
- Wäinö Solab. 1883FInot in their usual nameFinnish opera singer
- Clinton Sundbergb. 1903USAmerican actor (1903-1987)
- Poul Michelsenb. 1944FOnot in their usual nameFaroese businessperson and politician
- Jim Sundbergb. 1951USAmerican baseball player
- Pär Sundbergb. 1957SESwedish actor (born 1957)
- Katrin Sundbergb. 1962SEactress and dancer
- Yann Sundbergb. 1972FRFrench actor
- Chisub. 1982FInot in their usual nameFinnish singer
- Noah Sonko Sundbergb. 1996SESwedish footballer
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 25 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 3
- 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 Sundberg mean, and where does it come from?
- Invented Swedish name meaning literally ‘hill by a strait’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Sundberg 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 is Sundberg most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sundberg is densest in Åland Islands — about 1 in 191 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sundberg?
- In Åland Islands, the national register counted 137 people named Sundberg in 2025, about 1 in 191 residents.
- How common is Sundberg compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Sundberg is the 46th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sundberg?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sundbergThe 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, “Sundberg” — the 46th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.