Volberg

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from the place name Mülheim (Rhld.)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

Pronunciation:

Volberg is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

from the place name Mülheim (Rhld.)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Volberg counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Volberg is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
FR France—37—
NO Norway—18—
EE Estonia—10—
BE Belgium—4—
CH Switzerland—3—

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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Volberg is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Вольберг, Волберг

  • Hebrew surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Hungary, Poland

    Also written וולברג, Wolberg, Wahlberg, Walberg, Wollberg

20 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Volberg is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, ON. Mülheim (Rhld.)

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

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)
1850190019502000August Volberg, b. 1896Heinz Volberg, b. 1942Alexander Volberg, b. 1956Mats Volberg, b. 1985

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)
FormalDear Ms Volberg,
InformalHi Volberg,

Evidence

(measured from records)

11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Volberg mean, and where does it come from?
from the place name Mülheim (Rhld.) Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
In which country does Volberg have the most bearers?
Volberg is most frequently recorded in France.

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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, “Volberg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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