Blumberg Surname

51,216th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 10,011 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Estonia

Blumberg Surname Definition:

(Ger.) Flower-Hill [see Blum and Berg]

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Blumberg Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States5,6021:64,7027,565
Germany2,7421:29,3603,870
South Africa3541:153,04417,319
Russia1621:889,64870,971
Brazil1521:1,408,38447,527
Australia1241:217,70720,896
Argentina1231:347,50727,272
Bolivia1211:87,7393,729
France1041:638,68083,098
Canada851:433,47837,831
Dominican Republic691:151,2025,897
Poland581:655,32357,058
England561:994,96549,531
Estonia461:28,7355,267
Latvia431:47,6757,247
Switzerland251:328,51725,592
New Zealand231:196,88420,367
Belgium171:676,27358,718
Israel161:534,85239,210
Finland111:499,70030,478
Chile101:1,761,64727,489
Thailand91:7,848,705447,191
Costa Rica81:597,5094,667
Uruguay61:571,96026,877
Wales51:618,90625,852
Bahamas41:97,9381,027
Japan31:42,614,76459,022
Ireland31:1,569,64617,286
Italy31:20,385,563143,117
Lithuania21:1,517,29435,813
Belarus21:4,750,530139,516
Panama21:1,956,12915,285
Turkey21:38,910,711171,901
Sweden21:4,923,378241,212
Angola11:26,989,21411,853
Kazakhstan11:17,682,496204,010
Colombia11:47,774,07244,230
Uzbekistan11:30,929,14267,786
Curaçao11:157,2471,313
El Salvador11:6,343,8888,415
Transnistria11:474,69917,893
Guernsey11:64,4392,137
Hong Kong11:7,335,48316,643
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
Hungary11:9,816,27773,288
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
India11:767,065,3821,851,717
Philippines11:101,238,223404,861
Norway11:5,142,286129,201
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Luxembourg11:580,54215,155
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland11:4,429,86640,727
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England361:677,09432,515
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States2681:187,38316,555

Blumberg (15) may also be a first name.

Blumberg Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

(Ger.) Flower-Hill [see Blum and Berg]

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

“Mountain of Flowers” in German. Meaning identical with Montefiore in Italian.

South African Surnames (1965) by Eric Rosenthal

(German) One who came from Blumberg (flower mountain), the name of two places in Germany.

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

User-submitted Reference

Bloomberg. 'Flower mountain.' Ornamental. German origins. From 'blum' (noun, German, 'flower') and 'berg' (noun, German, 'mount, hill'). Common amongst Ashkenazi Jews.

- archeroftheeyes

Blumberg Last Name Facts

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

The last name Blumberg (Russian: Блумберг) occurs more in The United States more than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Blumberg.

How Common Is The Last Name Blumberg? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 51,216th most prevalent surname on a worldwide basis, borne by around 1 in 727,954 people. This surname is mostly found in The Americas, where 62 percent of Blumberg reside; 57 percent reside in North America and 57 percent reside in Anglo-North America. It is also the 2,900,335th most commonly held first name internationally. It is borne by 15 people.

Blumberg is most widely held in The United States, where it is borne by 5,602 people, or 1 in 64,702. In The United States Blumberg is most frequent in: New York, where 14 percent live, California, where 11 percent live and Maryland, where 11 percent live. Not including The United States Blumberg is found in 50 countries. It also occurs in Germany, where 27 percent live and South Africa, where 4 percent live.

Blumberg Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Blumberg has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Blumberg last name rose 2,090 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it rose 156 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it rose 300 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Blumberg Last Name Statistics demography

The religious adherence of those holding the surname is chiefly Jewish (100%) in Ireland and Orthodox (78%) in Russia.

In The United States those bearing the Blumberg surname are 38.44% more likely to be registered Democrats than The US average, with 91.67% registered with the political party.

The amount Blumberg earn in different countries varies greatly. In South Africa they earn 162.52% more than the national average, earning R 623,844 per year; in United States they earn 29.79% more than the national average, earning $56,003 USD per year and in Canada they earn 76.27% more than the national average, earning $87,578 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Blumberg Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Blumberg in the Russian language
Блумбергblumberg-

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