Burstein
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbɝstaɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Burstein is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 232K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 5.2Kas בורשטיין
- RURussia≈1 in 394Kas Бурштейн
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 Burstein 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 281 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
1,682 named בורשטיין, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled בורשטיין in IL Israel, LV Latvia, Бурштейн in RU Russia and בורשטין in LT Lithuania.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Burstein 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 | #313 | 1,682as בורשטיין | 1 in 5.2K | 1.7K | בורשטיין | 54 |
| US United States | — | 1,435 | 1 in 232K | 1.5K | Burstein | 281 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Burstein | 2 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Burstein | 3 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 394K | — | Бурштейн | 94 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | בורשטיין | 3 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | בורשטין | 3 |
1,682 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"). 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)
- Louis Bursteinb. 1878USAmerican film producer
- Pesach Bursteinb. 1896USPolish-born American comedian, singer, coupletist, and vaudeville/theater director (1896-1986)
- Pinchas Bursteinb. 1927PLPolish-born Paris-based artist (1927-1977)
- Rona Barrettb. 1936USnot in their usual nameAmerican gossip columnist and businesswoman
- Danny Bursteinb. 1964USAmerican actor
- Michael A. Bursteinb. 1970USAmerican writer of science fiction (1970-)
- Nanette Bursteinb. 1970USAmerican director, producer, writer
- Avrum Bursteinb. 1971ILJerusalem Klezmer
- Tal Bursteinb. 1980ILIsraeli basketball player (born 1980)
- Julie Bursteinwriter and radio producer
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,771 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #18,994 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,340 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce Burstein?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɝstaɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Burstein have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named בורשטיין, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Burstein?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,435 people named Burstein in 2010, about 1 in 232 thousand residents.
- How common is Burstein compared with other names?
- In Israel, Burstein is the 313th most common surname of 325,634 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/bursteinThe 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, “Burstein” — the 313th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.