Bergen

Bergen is the 5,910th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,625 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 53,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,625
Rank: 5,910th
How common: 1 in 53,100
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Norwegian

Bergen, from Old Norse Bjǫrgvin (“meadow between the mountains”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Black, not Hispanic 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Bergen

Candice Bergen (born 1946)American actress
Steve von Bergen (born 1983)Swiss footballer
Polly Bergen (1930–2014)American actress
Edgar Bergen (1903–1978)American actor, radio performer, comedian and ventriloquist
Ingrid van Bergen (1931–2025)German actress
Larisa Bergen (1949–2023)Olympic volleyball player
Frances Bergen (1922–2006)actress, model
Gabriel Bergen (born 1982)Canadian rower

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

Surnames like Bergen

Also a first name

Bergen has been given to 954 American babies as a first name since 1928, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

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.