Berg

46,800 people in the United States were counted with the surname Berg in the 2020 census, making it the 720th most common in the country. That is about one person in 6,387.

By the numbers

People: 46,800
Rank: 720th
How common: 1 in 6,387
Per 100,000: 15.7

Where the name comes from

Origin German

From German Berg or Swedish berg, either term meaning hill or mountain.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Berg described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Berg

Paul Berg (1926–2023)American biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Alban Berg (1885–1935)Austrian composer
Marcus Berg (born 1986)Swedish association football player
Lev Berg (1876–1950)Russian and Soviet geographer, biologist and ichthyologist
Henning Berg (born 1969)Norwegian association football player
Patrick Berg (born 1997)Norwegian footballer
Peter Berg (born 1964)American actor, film director, producer and writer
Sepp van den Berg (born 2001)Dutch association football player

People named Berg with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Berg

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.