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Lindberg Ranking

In the United States, the name Lindberg is the 3,462nd most popular surname with an estimated 9,948 people with that name. 1


United States Lindberg migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Lindberg Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Carl Johann Lindberg, aged 21, who arrived in Boston, Massachusetts in 1831 2
  • L P Lindberg, aged 38, who arrived in Boston, Massachusetts in 1835 2
  • Lars Peter Lindberg, aged 38, who landed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1835 2
  • P Lindberg, aged 39, who arrived in New York in 1843 2
  • Mr. Lindberg, who arrived in Texas in 1846 2
  • ... (More are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)

Contemporary Notables of the name Lindberg (post 1700) +

  • Charles Augustus Lindberg (1902-1974), American aviator who made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1925
  • William James Lindberg (1904-1981), American jurist, Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington (1951–1971)
  • John Lindberg (b. 1959), American jazz double-bassist
  • David R. Lindberg (b. 1948), American malacologist and professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley
  • Lester L. "Bud" Lindberg (1911-1988), American professional basketball player
  • David C. Lindberg (1935-2015), American historian of science
  • George Wakem Lindberg (b. 1932), American jurist, Senior United States federal judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
  • Edward "Ed" Ferdinand Jacob Lindberg (1886-1978), American gold medalist athlete in 4 × 400 m relay at the 1912 Summer Olympics
  • Per-Ola Lindberg (1940-2022), Swedish gold, silver and bronze medalist freestyle swimmer who competed at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics
  • Nils Lindberg (1933-2022), Swedish composer and pianist
  • ... (Another 11 notables are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)

Grover Shoe factory
  • Miss Hannah Lindberg, American employee of the Grover Shoe factory in Brockton, Massachusetts on 20th March 1905 when the boiler exploded and collapsed the wooden building; she died 3


Suggested Readings for the name Lindberg +

  • Prairie Memories: (Lindberg, Lindbergh families) by Algot R. Swanson.
  • Yesterday, a History of Norwegian Ancestry (Lindberg Family) by Evelyn Hoff.

  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. California Digital Newspaper from 21st March 1905 (retrieved on 5th August 2021.) Retrieved from https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19050321.2.19&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1


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