Goldberg Surname

7,841st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 72,507 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Israel

Goldberg Surname Definition:

(Ger.) Gold Hill [O.H.Ger. gold + berg, hill]

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Goldberg Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States50,1881:7,222850
Israel7,2071:1,18782
Germany3,3361:24,1323,199
Canada2,4581:14,9902,198
England1,5651:35,6034,691
Russia9911:145,43216,883
South Africa9561:56,6717,197
Australia9451:28,5673,876
Argentina8521:50,1684,236
France7031:94,48513,739
Brazil4171:513,36819,304
Poland2741:138,71820,079
Belgium2231:51,5548,431
Mexico2091:593,9059,891
Netherlands1961:86,15914,300
Dominican Republic1621:64,4013,114
Thailand1561:452,81079,462
Chile1471:119,8404,336
Estonia1151:11,4941,676
Scotland1061:50,5084,357
Sweden1041:94,6806,886
Lithuania1001:30,3465,330
Denmark871:64,8826,521
Spain761:615,15828,427
Austria701:121,64916,953
Japan701:1,826,34726,665
Uruguay641:53,6215,918
Czechia581:183,33627,089
Switzerland561:146,65914,074
Belarus531:179,26523,543
Latvia421:48,8117,408
New Zealand411:110,44714,290
Kazakhstan331:535,83338,572
Uzbekistan331:937,24718,607
Philippines291:3,490,973149,374
Costa Rica271:177,0402,395
Singapore261:211,83510,313
Venezuela251:1,208,16317,203
Ecuador231:691,55912,337
Wales211:147,35910,403
Moldova201:178,06817,570
Honduras191:464,0233,299
India191:40,371,862445,856
Indonesia171:7,779,364314,803
Northern Ireland161:115,3156,804
Ireland151:313,92910,911
Finland151:366,44725,366
Hong Kong151:489,0323,321
United States Virgin Islands121:9,1981,357
Norway91:571,36544,190
China81:170,915,1968,932
Italy81:7,644,586115,463
Zimbabwe61:2,573,040106,478
Bulgaria51:1,395,78141,665
Nigeria51:35,428,552388,973
United Arab Emirates51:1,832,45558,414
Egypt41:22,983,93862,368
Hungary41:2,454,06961,891
Azerbaijan31:3,216,37432,290
Greece31:3,693,263126,191
Malaysia31:9,831,408269,765
Peru31:10,594,70845,902
Taiwan31:7,814,91541,694
Afghanistan21:16,076,59243,178
Colombia21:23,887,03632,612
Senegal21:7,289,6718,117
South Korea21:25,620,1284,175
Transnistria21:237,35016,204
Turkey21:38,910,711171,901
Albania11:2,914,05529,474
Angola11:26,989,21411,853
Barbados11:287,4482,772
Belize11:355,4743,977
Bermuda11:65,2793,010
Bolivia11:10,616,43417,077
Botswana11:2,186,92930,250
Congo11:4,989,09634,171
Cyprus11:884,87613,055
Dominica11:75,891912
Gabon11:1,889,1946,814
Ghana11:27,020,69223,742
Guam11:160,1214,893
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Ivory Coast11:23,071,23276,679
Jordan11:8,842,43726,010
Kenya11:46,179,900103,372
Liechtenstein11:38,3781,726
Luxembourg11:580,54215,155
North Macedonia11:2,101,47231,546
Madagascar11:23,649,8379,420
Paraguay11:7,236,74616,511
Portugal11:10,418,24125,048
Puerto Rico11:3,550,1399,109
Romania11:20,077,87089,414
Saint Barthelemy11:9,614134
Saint Kitts and Nevis11:55,1991,294
Saint Pierre and Miquelon11:6,399357
Serbia11:7,144,94838,459
Sri Lanka11:20,808,56018,521
Tajikistan11:8,386,69212,859
Trinidad and Tobago11:1,363,97522,013
Turkmenistan11:5,489,11211,427
Uganda11:39,039,279258,887
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland531:83,5825,769
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England3691:66,0587,550
Scotland211:178,2486,976
Wales71:224,0598,079
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1,0151:49,4775,632

Goldberg (210) may also be a first name.

Goldberg Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

(Ger.) Gold Hill [O.H.Ger. gold + berg, hill]

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

Place name in Eastern Germany. Literally “Gold Mountain”.

South African Surnames (1965) by Eric Rosenthal

(German) One who came from Goldberg (gold mountain), the name of five places in Germany.

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

(from a place name) or (from the name of a female ancestor) or (an invented surname) Goldberg is one of the most widespread Jewish family names. There is actually a place called Goldburgh in Silesia, where the first Goldberg lived more than six hundred years ago, and this is the source of the name. When the Jews were expelled from Silesia in the fourteenth century, a number of them took Goldberg as their family name. This, however, does not explain why there are more than 60,000 Goldbergs in the United States alone; they certainly are not all descended from those few families. Actually, the name was easily adopted by many others who had no relationship to the original Silesian Jews. Many Jews honored a matriarch by the name of Golda by assuming the family name Goldberg. Other matronymics for Golda are: Gold, Goldman, Goldner, Gilden, Goldbaum, Goldenbaum, Goldenberg, Goldblum, Goldbrunn, Goldfeder, Goldfish, Goldhaber, Goldheim, Goldhammer, Goldhirsch, Goldsand, Goldkorn, Goldkraut, Goldmark, Goldich, Goldreich, Goldschild, Goldschlag, Goldstadt, Goldstaub, Goldstern, Goldstrom, Goldenthal, Goldzweig, Goldblatt, Goldblitt, Goldfluss, Goldkrantz.

— Rabbi Benzion Kaganoff

User-submitted Reference

The Goldberg family's roots are from Eastern Europe. The name meaning is "mountain of gold" (berg is mountain).

- sparow01

Goldberg Last Name Facts

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

The surname Goldberg (Hindi: गोल्डवर्ग, Russian: Гольдберг) is borne by more people in The United States than any other country or territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Goldberg? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 7,841st most prevalent surname on earth, held by approximately 1 in 100,508 people. This last name occurs mostly in The Americas, where 75 percent of Goldberg reside; 73 percent reside in North America and 72 percent reside in Anglo-North America. Goldberg is also the 624,169th most frequently held first name throughout the world, held by 210 people.

This surname is most commonly held in The United States, where it is held by 50,188 people, or 1 in 7,222. In The United States it is mostly concentrated in: New York, where 21 percent are found, California, where 12 percent are found and Florida, where 11 percent are found. Besides The United States Goldberg occurs in 102 countries. It also occurs in Israel, where 10 percent are found and Germany, where 5 percent are found.

Goldberg Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Goldberg has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Goldberg surname expanded 4,945 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 424 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it expanded 505 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it expanded 300 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it contracted 72 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Goldberg Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the last name is principally Jewish (98%) in Ireland, Orthodox (82%) in Russia and Orthodox (71%) in Ukraine.

In The United States those bearing the Goldberg last name are 41.94% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 95.17% being registered with the party.

The amount Goldberg earn in different countries varies greatly. In Norway they earn 14.31% less than the national average, earning 296,543 kr per year; in Peru they earn 51.31% less than the national average, earning S/. 9,439 per year; in South Africa they earn 128.93% more than the national average, earning R 544,032 per year; in United States they earn 29.58% more than the national average, earning $55,911 USD per year and in Canada they earn 41.93% more than the national average, earning $70,513 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Goldberg Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Goldberg in the Hindi language
गोल्डवर्गgoldavarga-
Goldberg in the Russian language
Гольдбергgoldberg-

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Goldberg Reference & Research

Goldberg DNA Website - A web page dedicated to the genetic research of those who bear the surname and its variants.

Goldberg FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.

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