How common is the surname Sternberg?

3,935 people in the United States had the surname Sternberg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 78,461 Americans. It ranked 8,405th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Sternberg?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Sternberg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Sternberg?

Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian anti-communist general (1886-1921), followed by Josef von Sternberg.

Where is the surname Sternberg most common?

Wikidata records people named Sternberg in the United States, Austria and the Russian Empire and 2 other countries.

Is the surname Sternberg getting more or less common?

More common. 3,875 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,935 in 2010, up 1.5%.

The surname Sternberg

A surname, carried by 3,935 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S365

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sternberg is more common than 94.8% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,935 people named Sternberg in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 78,461 Americans. That is up 1.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,875.

#8,405

rank among US surnames

3,935

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+1.5%

change since 2000 (was #7,920)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,401	Lavery	3,938	78,402
#8,402	Hermanson	3,937	78,422
#8,404	Alvis	3,936	78,441
#8,405	Carrick	3,935	78,461
#8,407	Heron	3,934	78,481
#8,408	Winton	3,930	78,561

Who is named Sternberg

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

96% of people named Sternberg identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Sternbergs

10 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
Austrian anti-communist general (1886-1921)
Josef von Sternberg
Austrian-American film director (1894-1969)
Robert Sternberg
American psychologist & scholar, born 1949
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)

Notable Sternbergs come mostly from the United States (5), Austria (2) and the Russian Empire (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sternberg

Sternberg has the Soundex code S365, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S365.

Questions

How common is the surname Sternberg?: 3,935 people in the United States had the surname Sternberg in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 78,461 Americans. It ranked 8,405th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sternberg?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Sternberg identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Sternberg?: Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian anti-communist general (1886-1921), followed by Josef von Sternberg.
Where is the surname Sternberg most common?: Wikidata records people named Sternberg in the United States, Austria and the Russian Empire and 2 other countries.
Is the surname Sternberg getting more or less common?: More common. 3,875 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,935 in 2010, up 1.5%.