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The ORENSTEIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,291 19398 0 5
United States (1880 census) -1 116412 0 0
Change since 1880 +1292 +97014 +N/A +N/A
Other Countries
Australia 17 59528 0 1
United Kingdom 34 27156 0 1
Top States for ORENSTEIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 315 5241 0.002 17
Florida 154 10168 0.001 10
California 134 15527 0.000 4
Massachusetts 87 7912 0.001 14
New Jersey 75 11161 0.001 9
Top States for ORENSTEIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Connecticut 64 6134 0.002 19
New York 315 5241 0.002 17
Massachusetts 87 7912 0.001 14
Washington DC 6 8054 0.001 10
Florida 154 10168 0.001 10

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ORENSTEIN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ORENSTEIN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ORENSTEIN in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ORENSTEIN by picking someone at random in Connecticut than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ORENSTEIN

Language of origin: Hebrew

Religious origin: Jewish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the ORENSTEIN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of ORENSTEIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 25 1.94
Mixed Race 13 1.01
Asian/Pacific 8 0.62
White (Caucasian) 1,241 96.13
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ORENSTEIN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of ORENSTEIN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of ORENSTEIN.

Similar names to ORENSTEIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ORENSTEIN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for ORENSTEIN

The following words are slight variants of ORENSTEIN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.