Find out how popular the last name Weintraub is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Weintraub.

Weintraub, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Weintraub surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Weintraub in America

Weintraub is the 8665th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Weintraub surname appeared 3,792 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 people would have the surname Weintraub.

We can also compare 2010 data for Weintraub to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Weintraub

The surname Weintraub is of German origin, deriving from the Middle High German words "win" meaning "wine" and "trube" meaning "grape." It first emerged in the regions of southern Germany and Switzerland during the late Middle Ages, around the 13th or 14th century.

The name likely referred to an occupation or place of residence associated with wine-making or viticulture. It may have originally been a descriptive surname given to someone who lived near vineyards or worked as a wine-maker or seller of wine.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the name Weintraub can be found in a document from Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, dated 1387, mentioning a certain "Hans Weintraub." In the 15th century, the name appeared in various spellings such as "Weintruber" and "Weintrawber" in records from the regions of Württemberg and Bavaria.

In the 16th century, a notable bearer of the name was Johann Weintraub (1513-1586), a German composer and organist who served at the court of Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria. During this time, the name was also found in its modern spelling "Weintraub" in areas around Nuremberg and Regensburg.

Another prominent figure with this surname was the 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Johann Jakob Weintraub (1629-1695), who made significant contributions to the development of calculus and was a contemporary of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

In the 18th century, the name Weintraub appeared in records from various German states, including Prussia and Saxony. One notable bearer was the Prussian military officer Georg Weintraub (1738-1811), who fought in the Seven Years' War and later served as a general under Frederick the Great.

As the name spread throughout German-speaking regions, it also found its way into other parts of Europe and eventually to other parts of the world through immigration. For example, in the 19th century, a family named Weintraub settled in the Russian Empire, and one of their descendants, Yakov Weintraub (1849-1923), became a prominent Jewish writer and journalist.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Weintraub

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Weintraub.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Weintraub was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Weintraub has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Weintraub was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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