Homberg
loc · Latin script
Meaning: 1. habitational name from any of various German places so called
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hɔmbɛʁk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Homberg is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- PLPoland
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. habitational name from any of various German places so called. The name is derived from an inflected form of Old High German hoh ‘high’ + berg ‘hill’. 2. variant of Homburg.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Homberg counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | — | Homberg | 85 |
| PL Poland | — | 4 | Homberg | 1 |
| US United States | — | 312 | — | 125 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 88 | — | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 17 | — | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Homberg is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, a hamlet in Horst aan de Maas, Limburg, Netherlands
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wilhelm Hombergb. 1652DEDutch alchemist
- Herz Hombergb. 1749CZAustrian writer
- Théodore Hombergb. 1802FRjuriste français
- André Hombergb. 1867FRFrench private banker (1867-1948)
- Octave Hombergb. 1876FRFrench financier
- Heinrich Hombergb. 1893DEGerman politician (1893-1967)
- Manfred Hombergb. 1933DEGerman boxer (1933–2010)
- Angelique Hombergb. 1967NLDutch ceramicist (1967)
- Wolfgang Hombergb. 1969DEGerman association football player
- Judith R. Hombergb. 1976NLDutch neuroscientist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 312 | #60,390 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 305 | #65,066 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 280 | #74,428 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 88 | #21,042 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 17 | #41,155 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #222,599 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Homberg come from?
- 1. habitational name from any of various German places so called. The name is derived from an inflected form of Old High German hoh ‘high’ + berg ‘hill’. 2. variant of Homburg. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Homberg?
- A machine transcription gives /hɔmbɛʁk/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Homberg mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. habitational name from any of various German places so called.
- In which country does Homberg have the most bearers?
- Homberg is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled homberg.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hombergThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Homberg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.