Where does the surname Rubinstein come from?

Rubinstein is German in origin.

How common is the surname Rubinstein?

3,183 people in the United States had the surname Rubinstein in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,998 Americans. It ranked 10,125th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Rubinstein?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Rubinstein identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Rubinstein?

Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (1933-2010), followed by John Rubinstein.

Where is the surname Rubinstein most common?

Wikidata records people named Rubinstein in the United States, Poland and the Austrian Empire.

Is the surname Rubinstein getting more or less common?

More common. 3,068 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,183 in 2010, up 3.7%.

The surname Rubinstein

A German surname, carried by 3,183 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex R152

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Rubinstein is more common than 93.8% of them.

Origin

German origin

A surname from German.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,183 people named Rubinstein in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 96,998 Americans. That is up 3.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,068.

#10,125

rank among US surnames

3,183

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

+3.7%

change since 2000 (was #9,716)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,119	Hilt	3,185	96,937
#10,122	Ludwick	3,184	96,968
#10,125	Bodden	3,183	96,998
#10,132	Parmenter	3,182	97,029

Who is named Rubinstein

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

92% of people named Rubinstein identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 5.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
Two or more races 0.7%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Rubinsteins

6 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Zelda Rubinstein
American actress (1933-2010)
John Rubinstein
American actor, composer and director (born 1946)
Eva Rubinstein
Argentinian-born American photographer (b. 1933)
Susanna Rubinstein
Austrian psychologist, 1847–1914
Arthur B. Rubinstein
American Emmy Award-winning composer (1938-2018)
Jon Rubinstein
American businessman, born 1956

Notable Rubinsteins come mostly from the United States (4), Poland (1) and the Austrian Empire (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Rubenstein

Surnames that sound like Rubinstein

Rubenstein

Rubinstein has the Soundex code R152, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code R152.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Rubinstein come from?: Rubinstein is German in origin.
How common is the surname Rubinstein?: 3,183 people in the United States had the surname Rubinstein in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 96,998 Americans. It ranked 10,125th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Rubinstein?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Rubinstein identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Rubinstein?: Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (1933-2010), followed by John Rubinstein.
Where is the surname Rubinstein most common?: Wikidata records people named Rubinstein in the United States, Poland and the Austrian Empire.
Is the surname Rubinstein getting more or less common?: More common. 3,068 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,183 in 2010, up 3.7%.
What are other spellings of Rubinstein?: Rubenstein.