Trachtenberg

Locally spelled טרכטנברג in IL Israel, AR Argentina, RO Romania and 1 more.

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.

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Trachtenberg is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English77%

  A Jewish surname from German.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Hebrew5.2%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Trachtenberg in Hebrew.

• German5.0%

  Zmigrod: alternative form of Trachenberg; a town in Lower Silesia, Silesia, Poland

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Trachtenberg is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian surname14 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, United States, Ukraine, Türkiye

  Languages: Russian, English, Ukrainian

  Also written Трахтенберг, Trakhtenberg, Trajtenberg, Трахтэнберг

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

• Iosif Adolʹfovich Trachtenbergb. 1883UARussian economist (1883-1960)
• Alexander Trachtenbergb. 1885UAAmerican publisher
• Jakow Trachtenbergb. 1888CHRussian mathematician (1888–1951)
• Joshua Trachtenbergb. 1904USAmerican congregational reform Rabbi and scholarly writer
• Isaac Trachtenbergb. 1923UAscholar (1923–2023)
• Alan Trachtenbergb. 1932USAmerican historian (1932-2020)
• Marc Trachtenbergb. 1946USAmerican political scientist historian, Cold War specialist
• Dan Trachtenbergb. 1981USAmerican filmmaker and podcast host
• Michelle Trachtenbergb. 1985USAmerican actress (1985–2025)
• Lyle Trachtenbergactor and spouse of Whoopi Goldberg

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Trachtenberg come from?

Zmigrod: alternative form of Trachenberg; a town in Lower Silesia, Silesia, Poland Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Trachtenberg?

A machine transcription gives /ˈtɹæktənbɝɡ/ (IPA) for English.

What does the name Trachtenberg mean?

In English, A Jewish surname from German.

In which country does Trachtenberg have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 824 people named Trachtenberg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled trachtenberg.

Where is Trachtenberg most common?

Trachtenberg is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 404 thousand people carrying it.

How common is the name Trachtenberg?

In the United States, the national register counted 824 people named Trachtenberg in 2010, about 1 in 404 thousand residents.