Weinberger
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: a native or inhabitant of Weinberg
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈwaɪnbɝɡɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Weinberger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 5.9Kas וינברגר(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 62K
- USUnited States1 in 68K
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 Weinberger 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
4,897 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled וינברגר in IL Israel, LB Lebanon, HU Hungary.
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)
a native or inhabitant of Weinberg
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Weinberger is read(measured from records)
Weinberger is one spelling over 2 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.
- English66%
different form of Weinberg (i)
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Jaromi'r, Czech-born US composer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Casper Willard, US government
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
official
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German16%
a native or inhabitant of Weinberg
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Toponymischer Familienname zu Weinberg/Weinberg-Orten; 1760 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Weinberger 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4,897 | 1 in 68K | 4.9K | Weinberger | 78 |
| RO Romania | #531 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Weinberger | 4 |
| IL Israel | #536 | 1,462as וינברגר | 1 in 5.9K | 1.5K | וינברגר | 43 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | וינברגר | 3 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | וינברגר | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 55 | 1 in 62K | 55 | — | 1 |
4,897 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- László Vágób. 1875ROnot in their usual nameHungarian architect
- Jaromír Weinbergerb. 1896USCzechoslovak-American composer (1896–1967)
- Lois Weinbergerb. 1902ATAustrian politician (1902-1961)
- Caspar Weinbergerb. 1917USAmerican politician (1917-2006)
- Peter J. Weinbergerb. 1942USAmerican computer scientist
- Ed. Weinbergerb. 1945USAmerican screenwriter and television producer
- David Weinbergerb. 1950USAmerican philosopher (1950-)
- Mark Weinbergerb. 1962USAmerican businessperson, former Chair and CEO, EY (Ernst & Young)
- Jake Johnsonb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Richard Weinbergerb. 1990CACanadian swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist
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 30 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.9K | #6,607 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.9K | #6,870 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.5K | #6,873 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 55 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Weinberger mean, and where does it come from?
- a native or inhabitant of Weinberg Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Weinberger?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwaɪnbɝɡɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Weinberger have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Weinberger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled weinberger.
- Where is Weinberger most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Weinberger is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 62 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Weinberger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,897 people named Weinberger in 2010, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
- How common is Weinberger compared with other names?
- In Romania, Weinberger is the 531st most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/weinbergerThe 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, “Weinberger” — the 531st most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.