How common is the surname Ginsburg?

3,093 people in the United States had the surname Ginsburg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 99,821 Americans. It ranked 10,411th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Ginsburg?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Ginsburg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Ginsburg?

Charles Ginsburg, American engineer and developer of the videotape recorder (1920–1992), followed by Seymour Ginsburg.

Where is the surname Ginsburg most common?

Wikidata records people named Ginsburg in the United States.

Is the surname Ginsburg getting more or less common?

More common. 3,068 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,093 in 2010, up 0.8%.

The surname Ginsburg

A surname, carried by 3,093 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex G521

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Ginsburg is more common than 93.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,093 people named Ginsburg in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 99,821 Americans. That is up 0.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,068.

#10,411

rank among US surnames

3,093

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+0.8%

change since 2000 (was #9,716)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,405	Lipp	3,096	99,724
#10,408	Birdsall	3,095	99,756
#10,410	Albaugh	3,094	99,788
#10,411	Collings	3,093	99,821
#10,413	McDavid	3,092	99,853
#10,414	Houseman	3,091	99,885

Who is named Ginsburg

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

96% of people named Ginsburg identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
Two or more races 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Ginsburgs

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Charles Ginsburg
American engineer and developer of the videotape recorder (1920–1992)
Seymour Ginsburg
American computer scientist (1927–2004)
Martin D. Ginsburg
American legal scholar (1932–2010)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Ginsburg

Ginsberg

Ginsburg has the Soundex code G521, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code G521.

Questions

How common is the surname Ginsburg?: 3,093 people in the United States had the surname Ginsburg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 99,821 Americans. It ranked 10,411th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Ginsburg?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Ginsburg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Ginsburg?: Charles Ginsburg, American engineer and developer of the videotape recorder (1920–1992), followed by Seymour Ginsburg.
Where is the surname Ginsburg most common?: Wikidata records people named Ginsburg in the United States.
Is the surname Ginsburg getting more or less common?: More common. 3,068 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,093 in 2010, up 0.8%.