Goldberg

At the 2020 census, 28,177 Americans bore the surname Goldberg — 1,226th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 10,600.

By the numbers

People: 28,177
Rank: 1,226th
How common: 1 in 10,600
Per 100,000: 9.4

Where the name comes from

Origin German

from German Gold (“gold”) and Berg (“mountain”). One of the ornamental names chosen by Jews who were forced to take surnames in 18th and 19th century Germany.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.08%

Notable people called Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg (born 1955)American actress, comedian, author and television personality
Bill Goldberg (born 1966)American professional wrestler and football player
Rube Goldberg (1883–1970)American cartoonist
Adam Goldberg (born 1970)American actor
Leah Goldberg (1911–1970)Israeli poet
Evan Goldberg (born 1982)Canadian screenwriter
Adele Goldberg (born 1945)American computer scientist
Werner Goldberg (1919–2004)German soldier and politician

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

Surnames like Goldberg

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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.