Einhorn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A shield or sign on a house in the Ghetto of Frankfort on Main, 1776
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈaɪnˌhɔɹn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Einhorn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 168K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 14Kas אינהורן
- RORomania≈1 in 18K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Einhorn itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 281 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
1,981 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled אינהורן in IL Israel, LB Lebanon, NO Norway and 1 more and איינהורן in DE Germany.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A shield or sign on a house in the Ghetto of Frankfort on Main, 1776.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Einhorn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,981 | 1 in 168K | 2.2K | Einhorn | 281 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Einhorn | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 117K | — | איינהורן | 3 |
| IL Israel | #948 | 607as אינהורן | 1 in 14K | 607 | אינהורן | 29 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 378K | — | Einhorn | 2 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | אינהורן | 3 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | אינהורן | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | אינהורן | 1 |
1,981 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Einhorn is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Toponymic surname from a house-name/place-name origin; bearer count 199.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, unicorn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, from a house name meaning 'unicorn'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- David Einhornb. 1809USAmerican rabbi (1809-1879)
- Alfred Einhornb. 1856DEGerman chemist (1856-1917)
- Jerzy Einhornb. 1925PLPolish-born Swedish doctor and politician, Holocaust survivor (1925-2000)
- Ira Einhornb. 1940USAmerican murderer (1940–2020)
- Richard Einhornb. 1952USAmerican composer
- Lena Einhornb. 1954SESwedish physician, director and writer
- Stefan Einhornb. 1955SESwedish writer
- Randall Einhornb. 1963USAmerican television director and cinematographer
- Trevor Einhornb. 1988USAmerican actor
- Itamar Einhornb. 1997ILIsraeli cyclist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,266 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,937 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,009 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Einhorn mean, and where does it come from?
- A shield or sign on a house in the Ghetto of Frankfort on Main, 1776. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- How do you pronounce Einhorn?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈaɪnˌhɔɹn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Einhorn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Einhorn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled einhorn.
- How common is the name Einhorn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,981 people named Einhorn in 2010, about 1 in 168 thousand residents.
- How common is Einhorn compared with other names?
- In Israel, Einhorn is the 948th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/einhornThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Einhorn” — the 948th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.