Eisner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Instead of Isaac, Eise changing to Eisner, and Eisinger for Eister; Eisinger from the town of Eisingen, Baden 1809
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ajsnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Eisner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 77K
- USUnited States1 in 101K
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
- 330 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.8K (inferred from the name graph)
3,294 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Instead of Isaac, Eise changing to Eisner, and Eisinger for Eister; Eisinger from the town of Eisingen, Baden 1809.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Where in the world(measured from records)
Eisner 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 | — | 3,294 | 1 in 101K | 3.3K | Eisner | 330 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Eisner | 102 |
| AT Austria | #673 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Eisner | 61 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Eisner | 84 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 565K | — | Eisner | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 179 | 1 in 60K | 179 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 82 | 1 in 72K | 82 | — | — |
3,294 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Eisner is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, variant of Eißler 1
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Kurt Eisnerb. 1867DEGerman politician and journalist (1867-1919)
- Lotte H. Eisnerb. 1896DEGerman film historian (1896-1983)
- Maria Eisnerb. 1909ITItalian-American photographer, photo editor and photo agent
- Will Eisnerb. 1917USAmerican cartoonist, writer and entrepreneur (1917–2005)
- Robert Eisnerb. 1922USAmerican academic, author, economist (1922-1998)
- Thomas Eisnerb. 1929USAmerican chemical ecologist (1929-2011)
- Elliot W. Eisnerb. 1933USAmerican professor of Art and Education
- Michael Eisnerb. 1942USAmerican business executive
- Breck Eisnerb. 1970USAmerican director
- Philip EisnerUSAmerican screenwriter
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 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.3K | #9,830 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,282 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #11,016 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 179 | #9,445 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 179 | #2,338 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 179 | #5,904 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 82 | #6,621 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Eisner mean, and where does it come from?
- Instead of Isaac, Eise changing to Eisner, and Eisinger for Eister; Eisinger from the town of Eisingen, Baden 1809. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- How do you pronounce Eisner?
- A machine transcription gives /ajsnə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Eisner have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Eisner, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled eisner.
- How common is the name Eisner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,294 people named Eisner in 2010, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
- How common is Eisner compared with other names?
- In Austria, Eisner is the 673rd most common surname of 127,275 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/eisnerThe 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, “Eisner” — the 673rd most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.