Sundberg
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Invented Swedish name meaning literally ‘hill by a strait’ (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/sɵndbɛrɡ/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
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. Sundberg is also written ซันด์เบิร์ก in Thai.
- AXÅland Islands1 in 191(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 113K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 350Kfew records
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. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 357 (measured from records)
- 1 in 191 (inferred from the name graph)
17,620 named Sandberg
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Åland Islands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sundberg in other scripts: Latin and Thai
(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.
How to pronounce Sundberg
- Swedish:/sɵndbɛrɡ/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Norwegian:/sʉndbɛrɡ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Invented Swedish name meaning literally ‘hill by a strait’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Sundberg is found
(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 |
| 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 |
| BJ Benin | #191 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Sandberg | 6 |
| 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)- Clinton Sundbergb. 1903USAmerican actor (1903-1987)
- Pär Sundbergb. 1957SESwedish actor (born 1957)
- Yann Sundbergb. 1972FRFrench actor
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
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].
- How do you pronounce Sundberg?
- It depends on the language: in Swedish /sɵndbɛrɡ/; in Norwegian /sʉndbɛrɡ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Sundberg?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 18 thousand people named Sandberg, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Norway, Finland and Benin; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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 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, “Sundberg” — ranked 32nd in Sweden (Skatteverket). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.