How common is the surname Weinstein?

13,563 people in the United States had the surname Weinstein in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 22,764 Americans. It ranked 2,659th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Weinstein?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Weinstein identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Weinstein?

Harvey Weinstein, American film producer and sex offender (born 1952), followed by Bob Weinstein.

Where is the surname Weinstein most common?

Wikidata records people named Weinstein in the United States.

How do you pronounce Weinstein?

Weinstein is /ˈwaɪnstiːn/, 2 syllables.

Is the surname Weinstein getting more or less common?

Less common. 13,809 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 13,563 in 2010, down 1.8%.

The surname Weinstein

A German occupational surname, carried by 13,563 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈwaɪnstiːn/ 2 syllables Soundex W523

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Weinstein is more common than 98.4% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Weinstein or Yiddish ווײַנשטיין (wine stone). The verb is from the behavior of Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood movie mogul and convicted sex offender.

Weinstein is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

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 13,563 people named Weinstein in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 22,764 Americans. That is down 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 13,809.

#2,659

rank among US surnames

13,563

people in 2010

4.6

per 100,000 Americans

-1.8%

change since 2000 (was #2,407)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,650	Crouse	13,598	22,705
#2,651	Dowd	13,590	22,719
#2,652	Suggs	13,585	22,727
#2,653	Pickering	13,582	22,732
#2,654	Adam	13,574	22,745
#2,655	Cheney	13,573	22,747
#2,656	Yancey	13,566	22,759

Who is named Weinstein

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

96% of people named Weinstein identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Weinsteins

8 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Harvey Weinstein
American film producer and sex offender (born 1952)
Bob Weinstein
American film executive (born 1954)
Eric Weinstein
American mathematician and venture capital director, born 1965
Claire Weinstein
American swimmer, born 2007
Josh Weinstein
American television writer and producer, born 1966
Bret Weinstein
Biologist, professor, public intellectual, born 1969
Allen Weinstein
American historian, 1937–2015
Alan Weinstein
American mathematician, born 1943

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Weinstein

Weinstein has the Soundex code W523, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W523.

Other German surnames

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Questions

Where does the surname Weinstein come from?: Borrowed from German Weinstein or Yiddish ווײַנשטיין (wine stone). The verb is from the behavior of Harvey Weinstein, Hollywood movie mogul and convicted sex offender.
How common is the surname Weinstein?: 13,563 people in the United States had the surname Weinstein in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 22,764 Americans. It ranked 2,659th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Weinstein?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Weinstein identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Weinstein?: Harvey Weinstein, American film producer and sex offender (born 1952), followed by Bob Weinstein.
Where is the surname Weinstein most common?: Wikidata records people named Weinstein in the United States.
How do you pronounce Weinstein?: Weinstein is /ˈwaɪnstiːn/, 2 syllables.
What type of surname is Weinstein?: Weinstein is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
Is the surname Weinstein getting more or less common?: Less common. 13,809 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 13,563 in 2010, down 1.8%.