Berkowitz
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Berkowitz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Israel it is the 93rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Germanized spelling of Polish Berkowicz, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 30Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 48K
- CACanada≈1 in 57K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Berkowitz itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 386 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
7,000 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled ברקוביץ in IL Israel.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Germanized spelling of Polish Berkowicz, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Berkowitz counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 7,000 | 1 in 48K | 7K | Berkowitz | 386 |
| IL Israel | #93 | 5,663as ברקוביץ | 1 in 1.5K | 5.7K | ברקוביץ | 44 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Berkowitz | 68 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Berkowitz | 66 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Berkowitz | 27 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Berkowitz | 1 |
7,000 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ralph Berkowitzb. 1910USAmerican pianist (1910-2011)
- Liane Berkowitzb. 1923DEGerman resistance fighter (1923–1943)
- Leonard Berkowitzb. 1926USAmerican psychologist (1926–2016)
- Ira Berkowitzb. 1939USAmerican writer
- David Berkowitzb. 1953USAmerican serial killer
- Richard Berkowitzb. 1955USAmerican AIDS activist and writer
- Peter Berkowitzb. 1959USAmerican political philosopher (1959-)
- Michael Berkowitzb. 1959USAmerican historian
- Ethan Berkowitzb. 1962USAmerican lawyer and politician
- Avi Berkowitzb. 1988USAmerican lawyer and politician
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7K | #5,018 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.9K | #4,725 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.8K | #4,990 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Berkowitz mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanized spelling of Polish Berkowicz, a Jewish Ashkenazi surname. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Berkowitz have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.0 thousand people named Berkowitz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled berkowitz.
- How common is the name Berkowitz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,000 people named Berkowitz in 2010, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
- How common is Berkowitz compared with other names?
- In Israel, Berkowitz is the 93rd most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/berkowitzThe 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, “Berkowitz” — the 93rd most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.