Goldstein
surname · Latin script
Meaning: List of the name Gold plus other suffixes
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡəwɫdstajn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Goldstein is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 11K
- CACanada≈1 in 12K
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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 482 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
29,938 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
List of the name Gold plus other suffixes.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goldstein 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 | #710 | 29,938 | 1 in 11K | 30K | Goldstein | 482 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Goldstein | 149 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Goldstein | 152 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Goldstein | 18 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Goldstein | 9 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Goldstein | 97 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Goldstein | 20 |
| NZ New Zealand | #862 | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Goldstein | 20 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Goldstein | 5 |
29,938 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. 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)
Goldstein is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from a medieval personal name, nickname, or occupational name from Middle High German, Middle Low German golste(i)n ‘gold stone’, ‘precious stone’, (probably chrysolite or topaz, which was used as a testing stone by alchemists).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
ornamental name composed of German Gold ‘gold’ -I- Stein ‘stone’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Joseph L., US molecular geneticist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Is a gold-stone.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
In German, kept with English pronunciation
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 Goldsteinb. 1878USGerman neurologist (1878-1965)
- Joseph Leonard Goldsteinb. 1940USAmerican biochemist
- Lesley Goreb. 1946USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer (1946–2015)
- Rupert Holmesb. 1947GBnot in their usual nameBritish-American composer and singer-songwriter and playwright
- Baruch Goldsteinb. 1956USAmerican-Israeli doctor, perpetrator of the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre (1956-1994)
- Jenette Goldsteinb. 1960USAmerican actress and businesswoman
- Jonathan Goldsteinb. 1964USAmerican actor
- Jonathan Goldsteinb. 1968USAmerican film director and screenwriter
- DJ AMb. 1973USnot in their usual nameAmerican disc jockey (1973–2009)
- Brett Goldsteinb. 1980GBBritish actor and comedian
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 33 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 30K | #1,050 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 30K | #1,173 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 28K | #1,228 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Goldstein mean, and where does it come from?
- List of the name Gold plus other suffixes. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- How do you pronounce Goldstein?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəwɫdstajn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Goldstein have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Goldstein, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goldstein.
- How common is the name Goldstein?
- In the United States, the national register counted 29,938 people named Goldstein in 2010, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Goldstein compared with other names?
- In the United States, Goldstein is the 710th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goldsteinThe 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, “Goldstein” — the 710th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.