# Berg (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/berg/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from German common in the US, associated with German or Scandinavian ancestry.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | German |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 48,746 |
| US rank (2010) | 712 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 6,334 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.5% (48,480 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From German Berg or Swedish berg, either term meaning hill or mountain.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Berg in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 95% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.3% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 1.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Berg in the United States, Cisleithania, Finland, the Russian Empire, Argentina and Austria.

## People named Berg

- Paul Berg, American biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemist
- Alban Berg, Austrian composer (1885–1935)
- Peter Berg, American actor, film director, producer and writer (born 1964)
- Gertrude Berg, American actress, screenwriter (1899-1966)
- Moe Berg, baseball player, spy (1902–1972)
- Nick Berg, American freelance radio tower repairman taken hostage and killed in Iraq
- Eero Berg, athletics competitor (1898–1969)
- David Berg, American leader of Children of God (1920–1994)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg, Baltic German aristocrat and Russian statesman (1794-1874)
- Bob Berg, American jazz saxophonist (1951–2002)
- Patty Berg, American golfer (1918–2006)
- Alan Berg, American talk radio show host (1934–1984)

and 15 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Borg, Bürg, Berk, Berkey, Berke, Beers, Berge, Béres, Bergh, Bergey, Brooks, Burke.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.