The Bamberger surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,161 people carried this name — #22,216 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 256,400 people counted. That is up 4% from 1,118 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Bamberger surname
Borrowed from German Bamberger, a habitational surname for someone from Bamberg, in Bavaria.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Bamberger» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
158 people named Bamberger live in Switzerland.
They live in 9 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 129 people named Bamberger.
11 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 18 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 23 people named Bamberger live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Bamberger,
with a public archive behind them.
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David Bamberger 1811– · entrepreneur -
Fritz Bamberger 1814–1873 · artist -
Sofie Bamberger d. 1914 · functionary
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Johann Peter Bamberger 1722–1804 · theologian
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Antoinette Bamberger 1732–1805 · writer
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Jakub Bamberger 1787–1861 · secretary
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bamberger.
- Balut 269 · U.S. census
- Baly 229 · U.S. census
- Balza 291 · U.S. census
- Balzano 1,288 · U.S. census
- Balzer 2,869 · U.S. census
- Bamba 994 · U.S. census
- Ban 2,011 · U.S. census
- Bana 367 · U.S. census
- Banach 2,071 · U.S. census
- Banal 209 · U.S. census
- Banas 2,993 · U.S. census
- Banasiak 547 · U.S. census
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