Berger

At the 2020 census, 41,655 Americans bore the surname Berger — 806th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 7,176.

By the numbers

People: 41,655
Rank: 806th
How common: 1 in 7,176
Per 100,000: 13.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Black, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Berger

John Berger (1926–2017)British painter, writer and art critic
Gerhard Berger (born 1959)Austrian former Formula One racing driver
Peter L. Berger (1929–2017)American sociologist
Tora Berger (born 1981)Norwegian biathlete
Helmut Berger (1944–2023)Austrian actor
Patrik Berger (born 1973)Czech association football player
Óscar Berger (born 1946)President of Guatemala
Margaret Berger (born 1985)Norwegian singer and songwriter

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

Surnames like Berger

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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.