Fun Facts About the Name Lindbergh
- 473 babies named Lindbergh: U.S. records list 473 babies given the name Lindbergh from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Lindbergh Mean?
Lindbergh is a spelling variant of the Swedish surname Lindberg, a two-part nature name meaning "linden-tree mountain." It is built from Swedish lind, the linden (also called lime) tree, and berg, meaning "mountain" or "hill." Both elements are old in the Scandinavian languages: lind goes back to Old Norse lind, the linden tree, and berg to Old Norse berg (also bjarg), rock or height.
Taken literally, the compound is topographic - it describes a hill or rocky rise where linden trees grow, and it matches the pattern of Swedish surnames built from two landscape words. In Old Norse poetry the word lind could also stand for "shield," because shields were often made of linden wood. That poetic usage is a secondary, symbolic association of the tree word, not the source of the surname's meaning.
The added h does not change the meaning; it is the form the name commonly took in English-speaking countries, while Lindberg remains the usual Swedish spelling. Other Swedish compounds such as Lindqvist and Lindholm share the first element but are separate names with their own second elements.
Lindbergh Name History & Origins
Hereditary surnames became common in Sweden only fairly late. For centuries most Swedes used patronymics - the father's given name plus -sson or -dotter - so the second name changed from generation to generation. From the 1700s, and increasingly during the 1800s, families adopted fixed surnames, many of them two-element compounds drawn from nature words such as lind (linden), berg (mountain), lund (grove), ström (stream), and qvist (twig). Lindberg belongs to this large group and is among the most common surnames in Sweden.
Names of this kind were also handed out to soldiers in the Swedish allotment system, and some were taken from farms, villages, or parishes. Several places in Sweden are named Lindberg, so for an individual family the surname may descend from a particular place name rather than from the nature words chosen at random. In most cases the two routes cannot be told apart.
The spelling with a final h is found mainly outside Sweden, among Swedish emigrants and their descendants. Its best-known bearer is the American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh (1902 - 1974), who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic in 1927. His grandfather, the Swedish farmer and Riksdag member Ola Månsson, adopted the surname Lindbergh in connection with his emigration to the United States in 1859, and the family carried that spelling thereafter.
How Popular is the Name Lindbergh?
Lindbergh recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 1927. Its best rank was #574 in 1927.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | #7,672 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1964 | #4,390 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1962 | #4,399 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1959 | #3,845 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1957 | #4,317 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1955 | #2,384 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 1954 | #2,381 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 1953 | #4,129 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1952 | #4,058 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1951 | #2,204 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1950 | #3,986 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1949 | #4,011 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1942 | #3,856 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1939 | #3,004 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1938 | #3,822 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1937 | #3,064 | 7 | 0.0007% |
| 1935 | #2,847 | 8 | 0.0008% |
| 1934 | #1,823 | 16 | 0.0015% |
| 1933 | #2,055 | 13 | 0.0013% |
| 1932 | #1,279 | 29 | 0.0028% |
| 1931 | #1,474 | 23 | 0.0022% |
| 1930 | #1,292 | 31 | 0.0028% |
| 1929 | #1,102 | 40 | 0.0037% |
| 1928 | #771 | 71 | 0.0064% |
| 1927 | #574 | 116 | 0.0103% |
| 1926 | #2,502 | 12 | 0.0011% |
| 1925 | #3,596 | 7 | 0.0006% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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