Eisen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From the town of Eisenburg today Vasvar in the county of Vas in Western Hungary, and from the town in West Thuringia, 1809
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Eisen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 82K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 89Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 99K
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 Eisen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 326 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
3,377 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled אייזן in IL Israel, 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)From the town of Eisenburg today Vasvar in the county of Vas in Western Hungary, and from the town in West Thuringia, 1809. The term Eisen is a new version of Isaac (named Eisik or Eise). Pforzheim Area, and Königsbach.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Eisen 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 | — | 3,377 | 1 in 99K | 3.4K | Eisen | 326 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | אייזן | 4 |
| IL Israel | #993 | 830as אייזן | 1 in 10K | 830 | אייזן | 31 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 89K | 2 | Eisen | 86 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 166K | listed | Eisen | 62 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 212 | 1 in 82K | 212 | Eisen | 15 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Eisen | 23 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 36K | 23 | Eisen | 10 |
3,377 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)Eisen is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Plate shows o/ö vowel variation in this surname type. Bearer count: 224.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, cupational name for an ironworker or smith, or an iron¬ monger, from Ger. Eisen iron (MHG isen, OHG Tsan). It may also have been used as a nickname, with reference to the strength and hardness of iron or to its colour, while as a Jewish name it was also adopted as an ornamental name from mod. Ger. Eisen iron or the Yid. cogn. ayzn. Eierding see Eckhakdt
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In German, iron
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In German, iron (chemical element, Fe)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Übername/Berufsname zu 'Eisen'; 712 Belege. Zeigt Eisen-/Isen-Variation: Eysen, Aysen, Aisen, Isen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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)- Charles Eisenb. 1720FRpainter, engraver and draughtsman (1720-1778)
- Keisai Eisenb. 1790JPJapanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artist
- Herman Eisenb. 1918USAmerican immunologist and cancer researcher
- Arthur Eisenb. 1927RURussian actor and opera singer (1927-2008)
- Paul Stanleyb. 1952USnot in their usual nameAmerican rock musician
- Cliff Eisenb. 1952ATCanadian musicologist
- Norman L. Eisenb. 1960USAmerican diplomat
- Tripp Eisenb. 1965USAmerican guitarist
- Michael Eisenb. 1967USAmerican biologist
- Jonathan A. Eisenb. 1968USAmerican evolutionary biologist
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)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.4K | #9,621 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,357 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,436 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 212 | #9,833 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 23 | #4,877 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 14 | #7,886 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Eisen come from?
- From the town of Eisenburg today Vasvar in the county of Vas in Western Hungary, and from the town in West Thuringia, 1809. The term Eisen is a new version of Isaac (named Eisik or Eise). Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- What are other forms of the name Eisen?
- In the etymology graph, Eis is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Eisen mean?
- Recorded meaning: From the town of Eisenburg today Vasvar in the county of Vas in Western Hungary, and from the town in West Thuringia, 1809.
- In which country does Eisen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Eisen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eisen.
- How common is the name Eisen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,377 people named Eisen in 2010, about 1 in 99 thousand residents.
- How common is Eisen compared with other names?
- In Israel, Eisen is the 993rd most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/eisenThe 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, “Eisen” — the 993rd most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.