Weissenstein
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of Weißenstein
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vaɪsənstaɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Weissenstein is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 402K(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 421K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1M
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 Weissenstein 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 73 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 402K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 named Weißenstein, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, 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 Weißenstein in DE Germany.
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)
Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of Weißenstein
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Weissenstein 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 711K | — | Weißenstein | 33 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | listed | Weissenstein | 73 |
| AT Austria | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 402K | — | Weissenstein | 10 |
| FR France | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | 2 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Weissenstein | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Weissenstein | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | 5 | 1 in 421K | 5 | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Weissenstein is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Veismaņu muiža, kas atradās Cēsu apriņķa Vaives pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Berthold Weissensteinb. 1879CZHolocaust victim (born 1879)
- Alfred Weissensteinb. 1881CZHolocaust victim (born 1881)
- Arnold Weissensteinb. 1881CZHolocaust victim (born 1881)
- Arnošt Weissensteinb. 1883holocaust victim, b. 1883-04-25
- Arnošt Weissensteinb. 1888holocaust victim, b. 1888-01-24
- Arnošt Weissensteinb. 1889CZholocaust victim, b. 1889-07-17
- Bohdan Weissensteinb. 1891CZHolocaust victim (born 1891)
- Grete Weissensteinb. 1893ATAustrian-born photographer
- František Weissensteinb. 1899CZholocaust victim, b. 1899-02-15
- Arnošt Weissensteinb. 1900CZholocaust victim, b. 1900-04-07
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 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 6 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 5 | #27,426 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Weissenstein mean, and where does it come from?
- Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of Weißenstein Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Weissenstein?
- A machine transcription gives /vaɪsənstaɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Weissenstein have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 113 people named Weißenstein in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Weissenstein?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 5 people named Weissenstein, about 1 in 421 thousand 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/weissensteinThe 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, “Weissenstein”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.