Einstein
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Albert Einstein, the world-famous 20th-century theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aɪnstaɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Einstein is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 505K(measured from records)
- LRLiberia≈1 in 51K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 54K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
659 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Albert Einstein, the world-famous 20th-century theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Einstein 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 | 659 | 1 in 505K | 703 | Einstein | 235 |
| IN India | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | 3 | Einstein | 21 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 694K | — | Einstein | 18 |
| IT Italy | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 422K | listed | Einstein | 5 |
| BR Brazil | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | 166 | — | 2 |
| LR Liberia | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Einstein | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 468K | — | Einstein | 35 |
| EE Estonia | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 18 | — | 1 |
659 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the xinhua-italian-manual register; the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; 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)
Einstein 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, a surname, notably of Albert Einstein
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Albert, German-born US physicist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
A well-known Jewish family name.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
A mason builder.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
In English, element
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Hermann Einsteinb. 1847DEGerman electrical engineer and businessman, father of Albert Einstein (1847–1902)
- Mileva Marićb. 1875RSnot in their usual nameSerbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)
- Elsa Einsteinb. 1876DEsecond wife and cousin of Albert Einstein (1876-1936)
- Albert Einsteinb. 1879DEGerman-born theoretical physicist (1879–1955)
- Alfred Einsteinb. 1880DEGerman-American musicologist and music editor
- Carl Einsteinb. 1885DEGerman art historian (1885-1940)
- Hans Albert Einsteinb. 1904CHSwiss-American engineer and educator (1904-1973)
- Eduard Einsteinb. 1910CHsecond son of Albert Einstein and his first wife Mileva Marić (1910–1965)
- Bob Einsteinb. 1942USAmerican comedian, actor (1942–2019)
- Albert Brooksb. 1947USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and comedian
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 28 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 703 | #34,665 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 659 | #34,390 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 657 | #32,900 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 112 | #58,162 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 18 | #6,296 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 16 | #6,913 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #33,051 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Einstein mean, and where does it come from?
- Albert Einstein, the world-famous 20th-century theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Einstein?
- A machine transcription gives /aɪnstaɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Einstein have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 659 people named Einstein, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled einstein.
- How common is the name Einstein?
- In the United States, the national register counted 659 people named Einstein in 2010, about 1 in 505 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/einsteinThe 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, “Einstein”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.