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einstein Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of various places named with a Middle High German derivative of einsteinen ‘to enclose or surround with stone’. In the unsettled social climate of the Middle Ages even relatively minor settlements were commonly surrounded with stone walls as a defense against attack.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name composed of German ein ‘one’ + Stein ‘stone’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of einstein Families in the US in 1920
Number of einstein families
 30-57
 11-29		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 17 - Messages: 66
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Obit Gertrude Wilma Gerhold Einstein, d. 1979 kathleenbowen 2
Einstein, Jakob, Meir-Moshe, Marcus, Abraham Doug Miller 2
Albert Einstein Jason Hirsch 19
Einteins of Buchau Germany gbs36 8
Einsteins of NY barryleehall 0
Macon, GA - Einstein circa 1850s J_Blum 1
Morris Einstein/Germany-PA Sue Howard 8
Einsteins from Slonim Poland s520 1
einsteins of buchau barryleehall1 0
Einsteins emigration Alain Van Delen 0
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