Given name & surname · also German
Eisen
“iron”
Eisen is a surname from German (ultimately Yiddish).
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Eisen comes from German, and ultimately from Yiddish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1953. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eisen through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 211
- 211 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,438 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −27%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,438 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 198 as a first name in 2020; 2,383 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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