Gorenstein
surname · Latin script
Meaning: altered form of Hornstein under Russian influence, since Russian has no h and alters h in borrowed words to g
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɣorenst̪ein/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Gorenstein is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 32Kas גורנשטיין
- RORomania≈1 in 130K
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 Gorenstein itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 127K (inferred from the name graph)
271 named גורנשטיין, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled גורנשטיין in IL Israel, BR Brazil, RO Romania and 2 more.
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.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)altered form of Hornstein under Russian influence, since Russian has no h and alters h in borrowed words to g.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gorenstein 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | 271as גורנשטיין | 1 in 32K | 271 | גורנשטיין | 19 |
| US United States | 241 | 1 in 1.4M | 241 | Gorenstein | 168 |
| RO Romania | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | גורנשטיין | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 44 | 1 in 4.8M | 44 | גורנשטיין | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Gorenstein | 7 |
| LV Latvia | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | גורנשטיין | 2 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 238K | — | גורנשטיין | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Gorenstein | 1 |
271 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)- Daniel Gorensteinb. 1923USAmerican mathematician (1923–1992)
- Arthur A. Gorenb. 1926USnot in their usual nameAmerican Jewish historian and professor (1926–2022)
- Friedrich Gorensteinb. 1932DESoviet and German Russian-language author and screenwriter (1932—2002)
- Eli Gorensteinb. 1952ILIsraeli actor
- Roni Gorensteinb. 1991ILIsraeli actress
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 241 | #79,075 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 240 | #74,957 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 221 | #89,848 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 44 | #114,634 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Gorenstein mean, and where does it come from?
- altered form of Hornstein under Russian influence, since Russian has no h and alters h in borrowed words to g. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gorenstein?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ɣorenst̪ein/; in Portuguese /ɡuɾj̃ʃtejn/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Gorenstein have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 271 people named גורנשטיין, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gorenstein?
- In the United States, the national register counted 241 people named Gorenstein in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gorensteinThe 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, “Gorenstein”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.