# Sternberg (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 3,935 |
| US rank (2010) | 8,405 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 78,461 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.5% (3,875 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sternberg 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) | 96% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.2% |
| Two or more races | 0.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Sternberg in the United States, Austria, the Russian Empire, Canada and Belgium.

## People named Sternberg

- Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian anti-communist general (1886-1921)
- Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American film director (1894-1969)
- Robert Sternberg, American psychologist & scholar
- Charles Hazelius Sternberg, American paleontologist (1850-1943)
- Charles Mortram Sternberg, American paleontologist (1885-1981)
- Brian Sternberg, American pole vaulter (1943–2013)
- Shlomo Sternberg, American mathematician (1936–2024)
- George Miller Sternberg, American physician (1838–1915); 18th U.S. Army Surgeon General from 1893 to 1902
- Carl Sternberg, Austrian professor and pathologist (1872-1935)
- Jacques Sternberg, Belgian writer (1923–2006)

## Similar surnames

Strong, Stern, Stringer, Strange, Stearns, Sterner, Strang, Stromberg, Starner, Strandberg, Sterns, Starnes.

## 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.