Bornstein Name Origin and Family Crest

Families named Bornstein carry a German surname with a long history. In Elsdon Smith's reading, the name described “dweller near a stony spring”. Landscape names of this kind told neighbours where a family's house stood.

The 2010 US Census counted 2,772 people named Bornstein, ranking it number 11,377 among American surnames. That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Bronstein, Bernstein and Brownstein.

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Bornstein family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them. For the full story, order the Bornstein surname pack.