Oberstein
surname · Latin script
/oʊbɝˌstaɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oberstein is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 714K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 714K (inferred from the name graph)
178 people, 2010
Reference-verified
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oberstein 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 | 178 | 1 in 1.9M | 184 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 15 | 1 in 714K | 15 | Oberstein | 6 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | — |
178 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 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
- Beila Karmelekb. 1873PLnot in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1873)
- Bram Obersteinb. 1897NLDutch cellist and Holocaust victim (1897–1943)
- Eli Obersteinb. 1901USAmerican record producer and music business executive (1901–1960)
- Hans Obersteinb. 1926Holocaust victim (born 1926)
- Maurice Obersteinb. 1928USAmerican music executive (1928-2001)
- Ivo Obersteinb. 1935CZCzech architect
- Karín Lesnik-Obersteinb. 1965GBscientist
- Simone Obersteinb. 1979DEGerman musician
- Nele ObersteinDEGerman association football player
- Paul ObersteinUSresearcher
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 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 184 | #103,857 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 181 | #93,841 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 178 | #101,247 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 15 | #64,236 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 15 | #16,854 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #279,359 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #167,610 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #27,630 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
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 Oberstein?
- A machine transcription gives /oʊbɝˌstaɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Oberstein have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 178 people named Oberstein, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Oberstein most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Oberstein is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 714 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Oberstein?
- In the United States, the national register counted 178 people named Oberstein in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Oberstein?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/obersteinThe 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, “Oberstein”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.