How common is the surname Bergman?

17,846 people in the United States had the surname Bergman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 17,301 Americans. It ranked 2,021st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bergman?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Bergman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Bergman?

Jeff Bergman, American voice actor (born 1960), followed by Henry Bergman.

Where is the surname Bergman most common?

Wikidata records people named Bergman in the United States, Sweden and Argentina.

Is the surname Bergman getting more or less common?

More common. 17,671 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 17,846 in 2010, up 1.0%.

The surname Bergman

A surname, carried by 17,846 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B625

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bergman is more common than 98.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 17,846 people named Bergman in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 17,301 Americans. That is up 1.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 17,671.

#2,021

rank among US surnames

17,846

people in 2010

6.0

per 100,000 Americans

+1%

change since 2000 (was #1,868)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,012	Corley	17,931	17,219
#2,013	Flaherty	17,926	17,223
#2,014	Drummond	17,922	17,227
#2,015	Bernstein	17,916	17,233
#2,016	Darnell	17,915	17,234
#2,017	Hwang	17,900	17,248
#2,018	Fong	17,889	17,259

Who is named Bergman

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Bergman identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.5%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Bergmans

15 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Jeff Bergman
American voice actor (born 1960)
Henry Bergman
American actor (1868-1946)
Mary Kay Bergman
American voice actress, 1961–1999
Sandahl Bergman
American actress, dancer, stuntwoman, born 1951
Jaime Bergman
American model and actress, born 1975
Andrew Bergman
American film director and screenwriter (born 1945)
Peter Bergman
American actor, born 1953
Stefan Bergman
American mathematician (1895–1977)
Jack Bergman
American military official and politician, born 1947
Marilyn Bergman
American composer, songwriter and author (1929–2022)
Robert Bergman
American chemist, born 1942
Lowell Bergman
American journalist (born 1945)

Notable Bergmans come mostly from the United States (13), Sweden (1) and Argentina (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bergman

Bergman has the Soundex code B625, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B625.

Questions

How common is the surname Bergman?: 17,846 people in the United States had the surname Bergman in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 17,301 Americans. It ranked 2,021st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bergman?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Bergman identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Bergman?: Jeff Bergman, American voice actor (born 1960), followed by Henry Bergman.
Where is the surname Bergman most common?: Wikidata records people named Bergman in the United States, Sweden and Argentina.
Is the surname Bergman getting more or less common?: More common. 17,671 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 17,846 in 2010, up 1.0%.