The O'BERG surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,457	5804	0.002	20
United States (1880 census)	461	10325	0.001	9
Change since 1880	+4996	+4521	+0.001	+11
Other Countries
Australia	132	11106	0.001	8
United Kingdom	60	25601	0	1

Top States for O'BERG by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	765	588	0.016	156
California	512	5524	0.002	15
Washington	361	2038	0.006	61
Illinois	350	3710	0.003	28
Florida	231	8257	0.001	14
Top States for O'BERG by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Minnesota	765	588	0.016	156
Nebraska	181	1044	0.011	106
North Dakota	64	1455	0.010	100
Alaska	59	1350	0.009	94
South Dakota	57	2027	0.008	76

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called O'BERG live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called O'BERG represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called O'BERG in Minnesota than any other state, but you are more likely to find a O'BERG by picking someone at random in Minnesota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of O'BERG

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the O'BERG surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of O'BERG in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	108	1.98
White (Hispanic)	80	1.47
Mixed Race	41	0.75
Asian/Pacific	34	0.62
Native American/Alaskan	23	0.42
White (Caucasian)	5,171	94.76

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the O'BERG surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to O'BERG

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as O'BERG.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.