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Weinberger Ranking

In the United States, the name Weinberger is the 9,612nd most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1


United States Weinberger migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Weinberger Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
  • Baltzer Weinberger, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1749 2
  • Johannes Weinberger, who settled in Philadelphia in 1762
  • Johannes Weinberger, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1764 2
Weinberger Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Karl Weinberger, who landed in America in 1849 2
  • Jacob Weinberger, who landed in Colorado in 1880 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Weinberger (post 1700) +

  • Shmuel Weinberger (b. 1963), American mathematician, eponym of the Weinberger Doctrine
  • David B. Weinberger (b. 1947), American mathematician and investor
  • David Weinberger (b. 1950), American technologist and commentator
  • Caspar Weinberger Jr. (b. 1947), American writer
  • Eliot Weinberger (b. 1949), American writer, editor, and translator
  • Caspar Willard "Cap" Weinberger (1917-2006), Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • Robert A. Weinberger, American Democratic Party politician, Candidate for U.S. Representative from Illinois 10th District, 1980 3
  • Milton Weinberger, American politician, Socialist Labor Candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York, 1924; Socialist Labor Candidate for Secretary of State of New York, 1926 3
  • Esther Weinberger, American Democratic Party politician, Alternate Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1944 3
  • Caspar Willard Weinberger (1917-2006), American Republican politician, Member of California State Assembly, 1953-56; U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1981-87 3
  • ... (Another 3 notables are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)


  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. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 14) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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