Löwenstein
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Changed in 1938 to different versions: (The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries
/ˈløːvn̩ˌʃtaɪn/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Löwenstein is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,720 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Löwenstein is also written לוינשטיין in Hebrew.
- DEGermany≈1 in 84K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 110Kfew records
- UYUruguay1 in 147K
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 Löwenstein 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 271 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 84K (inferred from the name graph)
1,720 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Löwenstein in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)7 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lowenstein in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 1 more and לוינשטיין in IL Israel.
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 Löwenstein
- German:/ˈløːvn̩ˌʃtaɪn/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Changed in 1938 to different versions:
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Löwenstein is found
(measured from records)Löwenstein 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 | 1,720 | 1 in 193K | 1.7K | Lowenstein | 271 |
| DE Germany | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Löwenstein | 58 |
| IL Israel | 456as לוינשטיין | 1 in 19K | 456 | לוינשטיין | 28 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 233K | listed | Lowenstein | 44 |
| CA Canada | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 214K | — | Lowenstein | 51 |
| AT Austria | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Löwenstein | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | 23 | 1 in 147K | 23 | — | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Lowenstein | 1 |
1,720 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"); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Princess Sophie of Liechtensteinb. 1837ATnot in their usual nameLiechtenstein princess (1837-1899)
- Peter Lorreb. 1904USnot in their usual nameHungarian and American actor (1904–1964)
- Curt Lowensb. 1925DEnot in their usual nameGerman actor (1925-2017)
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Löwenstein mean, and where does it come from?
- Changed in 1938 to different versions: Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- How do you pronounce Löwenstein?
- In German /ˈløːvn̩ˌʃtaɪn/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Löwenstein?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Löwenstein, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lowenstein. After it come Germany, Israel, United Kingdom and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Löwenstein?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,720 people named Löwenstein in 2010, about 1 in 193 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%B6wensteinThe 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, “Löwenstein” — ranked 15413th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.