How common is the surname Blomberg?

2,343 people in the United States had the surname Blomberg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 131,774 Americans. It ranked 13,091st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Blomberg?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Blomberg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Blomberg getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,351 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,343 in 2010, down 0.3%.

The surname Blomberg

A German place surname, carried by 2,343 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B451

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Blomberg is more common than 91.9% of them.

Origin

German origin

Two possible origins: * Borrowed from German Blomberg, a habitational surname. * Borrowed from Swedish Blomberg, an ornamental surname composed of the elements blom (“flower”) and berg (“mountain”).

Blomberg is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,343 people named Blomberg in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 131,774 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 2,351.

#13,091

rank among US surnames

2,343

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

-0.3%

change since 2000 (was #12,154)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,084	Ormond	2,346	131,605
#13,087	Carpentier	2,345	131,661
#13,088	Pascarella	2,344	131,717
#13,091	DiMatteo	2,343	131,774
#13,096	Highland	2,342	131,830
#13,099	Lipford	2,341	131,886

Who is named Blomberg

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

94% of people named Blomberg identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Blomberg

Blomberg has the Soundex code B451, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B451.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Blomberg come from?: Two possible origins: * Borrowed from German Blomberg, a habitational surname. * Borrowed from Swedish Blomberg, an ornamental surname composed of the elements blom (“flower”) and berg (“mountain”).
How common is the surname Blomberg?: 2,343 people in the United States had the surname Blomberg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 131,774 Americans. It ranked 13,091st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Blomberg?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Blomberg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Blomberg?: Blomberg is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Blomberg getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,351 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,343 in 2010, down 0.3%.