Vainshtein
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/vajn̪ʂt̪ɛjn̪/(machine-generated) Russian · model-generated · read from вайнштейн
Vainshtein is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- LVLatvia≈1 in 680Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ILIsrael1 in 5.4Kas ויינשטיין
- JMJamaica≈1 in 16Kfew recordsas Weinstein
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 Vainshtein 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 429 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 680K (inferred from the name graph)
13,563 named Weinstein, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)5 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Weinstein in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 2 more, ויינשטיין in IL Israel, LV Latvia and Вайнштейн in RU Russia.
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 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Vainshtein 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 | — | 13,563as Weinstein | 1 in 25K | 14K | Weinstein | 429 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 248 | Weinstein | 96 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Weinstein | 126 |
| IL Israel | #167 | 1,601as ויינשטיין | 1 in 5.4K | 1.6K | ויינשטיין | 73 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Вайнштейн | 113 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Weinstein | 25 |
| JM Jamaica | #658 | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Weinstein | 2 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 680K | — | ויינשטיין | 3 |
13,563 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"); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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)- Samuil Vainshteinb. 1894UARussian chess player (1894–1942)
- Moisei Vainshteinb. 1906AZSoviet conductor and composer (1906-1963)
- Hersh-Leib Kajberb. 1906MDnot in their usual nameMoldavian writer (1906-1942)
- Lev Vainshteinb. 1916RUSoviet sport shooter (1916-2004)
- Lev Vaynshteynb. 1920RUnot in their usual nameSoviet physicist (1920–1989)
- Boris Vaynshteynb. 1921RUnot in their usual nameSoviet physicist (1921-1996)
- Sevyan Vaynshteynb. 1926RUnot in their usual nameRussian anthropologist (1926–2008)
- Arkady Vainshteinb. 1942USSoviet-American physicist
- Irina Miroshnichenkob. 1942RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actress (1942-2023)
- Garry Kasparovb. 1963RUnot in their usual nameRussian chess grandmaster and activist
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Vainshtein?
- In Russian /vajn̪ʂt̪ɛjn̪/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Vainshtein have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Weinstein, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Vainshtein?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,563 people named Weinstein in 2010, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Vainshtein compared with other names?
- In Israel, Vainshtein is the 167th 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/vainshteinThe 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, “Vainshtein” — the 167th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.