Weinstein
surname · Latin script
Meaning: invented Jewish name based on German 'wine' + 'stone' (Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history])
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈwaɪnstaɪn/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Weinstein is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 13,563 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Weinstein is also written Вайнштейн in Cyrillic and ויינשטיין in Hebrew.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 16Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 19Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 22K
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 Weinstein 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 429 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
13,563 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Weinstein in other scripts: Cyrillic and Hebrew
(measured from records)5 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled ויינשטיין in IL Israel and Вайнштейн in RU Russia.
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.
How to pronounce Weinstein
- English:/ˈwaɪnstaɪn/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)invented Jewish name based on German 'wine' + 'stone'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Weinstein is found
(measured from records)Weinstein 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 | — | 13,563 | 1 in 25K | 14K | Weinstein | 429 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 248 | Weinstein | 96 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Weinstein | 126 |
| IL Israel | #167 | 1,601as ויינשטיין | 1 in 5.4K | 1.6K | ויינשטיין | 73 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Вайнштейн | 113 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Weinstein | 25 |
| JM Jamaica | #658 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Weinstein | 2 |
13,563 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 2000; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)Weinstein is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, An occupational or ornamental surname from German.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Name for a wine merchant.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
In German, from 'wine stone'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, cream of tartar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Harvey Weinsteinb. 1952USAmerican film producer and sex offender (born 1952)
- Robert Weinsteinb. 1954USAmerican film executive (born 1954)
- Garry Kasparovb. 1963RUnot in their usual nameRussian chess grandmaster and activist
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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Weinstein?
- In English /ˈwaɪnstaɪn/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Weinstein mean, and where does it come from?
- invented Jewish name based on German 'wine' + 'stone' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Weinstein?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Weinstein, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled weinstein. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Israel and Russia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Weinstein?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,563 people named Weinstein in 2010, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Weinstein compared with other names?
- In Israel, Weinstein is the 167th 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/weinsteinThe 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, “Weinstein” — ranked 2407th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.