Finkelstein

Finkelstein is the 7,559th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,236 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 70,600.

By the numbers

People: 4,236
Rank: 7,559th
How common: 1 in 70,600
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Yiddish

from Old High German funko (“spark”) with stein (“stone”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Finkelstein described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 93.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.07%

Notable people called Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein (born 1953)American political scientist
Israel Finkelstein (born 1949)Israeli archaeologist
David Finkelstein (1929–2016)American physicist
Amy Finkelstein (born 1973)American economist

People named Finkelstein with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Finkelstein

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.