Bamberg Surname

91,016th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 5,261 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Germany
Highest density in:
Luxembourg

Bamberg Surname Definition:

(German) One who came from Bamberg (Bab's hill), in Bavaria.

Bamberg Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Germany1,7561:45,8466,008
United States1,4321:253,11424,023
Brazil1,2091:177,0676,823
Finland1341:41,0205,167
Russia961:1,501,282102,725
South Africa871:622,73246,743
Paraguay871:83,1812,051
Netherlands691:244,74231,623
France691:962,648108,938
Luxembourg491:11,8482,062
Norway491:104,94514,093
England341:1,638,76668,634
Sweden331:298,38720,789
Belarus231:413,09041,560
Denmark171:332,04223,714
Estonia151:88,12015,474
Canada131:2,834,276161,175
Australia91:2,999,522116,751
Switzerland91:912,54658,198
Venezuela91:3,356,00933,931
China81:170,915,1968,932
Belgium71:1,642,37898,400
Croatia51:845,72148,179
Austria51:1,703,08789,702
Italy41:15,289,172132,955
Argentina41:10,685,854219,200
Japan41:31,961,07353,820
Kazakhstan31:5,894,165166,702
Israel31:2,852,545113,505
Uzbekistan11:30,929,14267,786
Yemen11:26,425,29455,147
United Arab Emirates11:9,162,273135,437
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
Taiwan11:23,444,74693,622
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
Afghanistan11:32,153,18360,828
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Seychelles11:92,3931,532
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
Romania11:20,077,87089,414
Peru11:31,784,12364,452
Azerbaijan11:9,649,12247,873
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
Moldova11:3,561,36878,271
Mali11:16,969,0354,067
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Hong Kong11:7,335,48316,643
Egypt11:91,935,754132,737
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England91:2,708,37473,770
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1651:304,35624,088

Bamberg (19) may also be a first name.

Bamberg Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

(German) One who came from Bamberg (Bab's hill), in Bavaria.

Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

(from a place name) From Bamberg, a town in Bavaria.

— Rabbi Benzion Kaganoff

Bamberg Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Bamberg Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Bamberg (Arabic: بامبرج, Russian: Бамберг) occurs most in Germany. It can also be found in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of Bamberg.

How Common Is The Last Name Bamberg? popularity and diffusion

Bamberg is the 91,016th most widespread family name globally It is held by approximately 1 in 1,385,202 people. This last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 51 percent of Bamberg live; 37 percent live in Western Europe and 36 percent live in Germanic Europe. It is also the 2,523,061st most frequently used forename at a global level It is held by 19 people.

The last name is most frequently occurring in Germany, where it is held by 1,756 people, or 1 in 45,846. In Germany it is primarily concentrated in: North Rhine-Westphalia, where 19 percent are found, Berlin, where 14 percent are found and Bavaria, where 10 percent are found. Barring Germany this last name exists in 47 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 27 percent are found and Brazil, where 23 percent are found.

Bamberg Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The occurrence of Bamberg has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Bamberg surname increased 868 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it increased 378 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Bamberg Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those bearing the Bamberg surname is primarily Orthodox (82%) in Russia and Orthodox (43%) in Ukraine.

In The United States those bearing the Bamberg surname are 39.03% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 92.26% being registered to vote for the party.

The amount Bamberg earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 17.95% less than the national average, earning 283,944 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 65.77% less than the national average, earning R 81,336 per year and in United States they earn 0.73% less than the national average, earning $42,836 USD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Bamberg Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Bamberg in the Russian language
Бамбергbamberg-
Bamberg in the Arabic language
بامبرجbambrj-

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