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    The surname Epshteyn

    A Yiddish surname, carried by 335 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex E123

    Epshteyn: #60,196 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Epshteyn #60,196, 335 people Epshteyn: #60,196 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Epshteyn #60,196, 335 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Epshteyn is more common than 62.9% of them.

    Origin

    Yiddish origin

    Borrowed from Yiddish עפּשטײן (epshteyn) (whence also Hebrew אֶפְּשְׁטֵיין (épshtein)). Doublet of Epstein and Eppstein.

    One of 31 Yiddish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 335 people named Epshteyn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 921,628 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 335.

    #60,196
    rank among US surnames
    335
    people in 2010
    0.1
    per 100,000 Americans
    0%
    change since 2000 (was #56,979)

    Who is named Epshteyn

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    99% of people named Epshteyn identified as white (not Hispanic).

    • White (not Hispanic) 99%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Hispanic are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Epshteyn

    Epshteyn has the Soundex code E123, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code E123.

    Other Yiddish surnames

    All 31 Yiddish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Epshteyn come from?
    Borrowed from Yiddish עפּשטײן (epshteyn) (whence also Hebrew אֶפְּשְׁטֵיין (épshtein)). Doublet of Epstein and Eppstein.
    How common is the surname Epshteyn?
    335 people in the United States had the surname Epshteyn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 921,628 Americans. It ranked 60,196th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Epshteyn?
    In the 2010 Census, 99% of people named Epshteyn identified as white (not Hispanic), and 0.0% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Is the surname Epshteyn getting more or less common?
    About as common. 335 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 335 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.