Last name origins & meanings:
- 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.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name composed of
German ein ‘one’ + Stein ‘stone’.
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