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Holmberg Ranking

In the United States, the name Holmberg is the 7,676th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1


United States Holmberg migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Holmberg Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Gustaf S Holmberg, aged 29, who arrived in America in 1866 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Holmberg (post 1700) +

  • Henric Holmberg (b. 1946), Swedish actor, director and scriptwriter
  • Erik Holmberg (1908-2000), Swedish astronomer
  • Britta Holmberg (1921-2004), Swedish film actress
  • Nils Arvid Birger Holmberg (1886-1958), Swedish Olympic gymnast
  • Åke Holmberg (1907-1991), Swedish author and translator

Empress of Ireland
  • Mr. Edvard Holmberg (2014-1914), Finnish Third Class Passenger from Helsingfors,, Finland who was traveling aboard the Empress of Ireland and died in the sinking 3


  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  3. Commemoration Empress of Ireland 2014. (Retrieved 2014, June 17) . Retrieved from http://www.empress2014.ca/seclangen/listepsc1.html


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