Goldenberg Surname

37,775th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 13,940 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Israel

Goldenberg Surname Definition:

(German) One who came from Goldenberg (gold mountain), in Germany.

Goldenberg Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States6,0341:60,0697,072
Israel3,9681:2,157244
Canada7821:47,1175,753
Russia5361:268,88628,122
Argentina4811:88,8647,485
Germany4651:173,13020,361
France4021:165,23125,748
Brazil3141:681,76525,128
Australia2001:134,97914,603
England1211:460,48030,233
Chile1051:167,7765,566
Belgium681:169,06823,042
Netherlands521:324,75337,631
Ecuador391:407,84210,051
Moldova361:98,92711,954
Cameroon321:649,03348,340
Thailand231:3,071,232294,953
Uruguay211:163,41713,939
Estonia191:69,56912,771
Paraguay181:402,0415,757
South Africa171:3,186,924115,449
Turkey171:4,577,731104,623
Spain151:3,116,80265,296
Austria151:567,69652,281
Switzerland141:586,63740,624
Costa Rica141:341,4343,425
Denmark131:434,20928,556
Peru131:2,444,93327,186
Italy131:4,704,361107,811
Belarus111:863,73365,346
Venezuela91:3,356,00933,931
Poland71:5,429,821146,768
Bulgaria71:996,98634,534
Transnistria51:94,94011,199
Mexico41:31,031,55163,627
Azerbaijan31:3,216,37432,290
Romania31:6,692,62378,504
Slovakia31:1,778,817104,392
Finland31:1,832,23457,803
Georgia31:1,248,51528,066
Sweden31:3,282,252190,759
Kazakhstan31:5,894,165166,702
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
Latvia21:1,025,02341,546
Zimbabwe21:7,719,120118,432
China21:683,660,78330,601
South Korea11:51,240,2568,015
Uzbekistan11:30,929,14267,786
Scotland11:5,353,81763,002
Jordan11:8,842,43726,010
Hungary11:9,816,27773,288
Abkhazia11:242,8655,354
Cook Islands11:18,1791,485
Cyprus11:884,87613,055
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
Dominican Republic11:10,432,93236,508
Ghana11:27,020,69223,742
Greece11:11,079,790145,225
Grenada11:108,5351,793
Panama11:3,912,25817,195
Indonesia11:132,249,194811,426
Ireland11:4,708,93929,543
Luxembourg11:580,54215,155
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Malta11:430,2723,380
New Zealand11:4,528,32355,372
Nicaragua11:6,021,0908,768
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England141:1,741,09855,534
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States1071:469,33333,530

Goldenberg (33) may also be a first name.

Goldenberg Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

(German) One who came from Goldenberg (gold mountain), in Germany.

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

Goldenberg Last Name Facts

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

The surname Goldenberg (Georgian: გოლდენბერგ, Russian: Гольденберг) occurs more in The United States more than any other country or territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Goldenberg? popularity and diffusion

The surname Goldenberg is the 37,775th most frequently occurring last name world-wide It is held by approximately 1 in 522,779 people. This surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 56 percent of Goldenberg live; 49 percent live in North America and 48 percent live in Anglo-North America. Goldenberg is also the 1,807,719th most commonly used first name in the world, held by 33 people.

The last name is most frequent in The United States, where it is carried by 6,034 people, or 1 in 60,069. In The United States Goldenberg is primarily found in: New York, where 24 percent live, California, where 13 percent live and Florida, where 12 percent live. Apart from The United States this last name occurs in 66 countries. It also occurs in Israel, where 28 percent live and Canada, where 6 percent live.

Goldenberg Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Goldenberg has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Goldenberg last name expanded 5,639 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it expanded 864 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Goldenberg Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the Goldenberg last name is principally Orthodox (60%) in Russia and Jewish (27%) in Ukraine.

In The United States those holding the Goldenberg last name are 41.86% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 95.09% being registered with the political party.

The amount Goldenberg earn in different countries varies greatly. In Peru they earn 682.94% more than the national average, earning S/. 151,772 per year; in South Africa they earn 239.46% more than the national average, earning R 806,676 per year; in United States they earn 31.53% more than the national average, earning $56,756 USD per year and in Canada they earn 48.65% more than the national average, earning $73,852 CAD per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

Goldenberg Name Transliterations

TransliterationICU LatinPercentage of Incidence
Goldenberg in the Georgian language
გოლდენბერგgoldenberg-
Goldenberg in the Russian language
Гольденбергgoldenberg-

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Goldenberg 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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Footnotes

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