Österberg

surname · Latin script

/œs̪t̪ɛrbɛrj/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Österberg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 218K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 2.4K
  • SESweden1 in 2.4K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

4,239 people

Sources
212 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Osterberg in US United States, SE Sweden, FI Finland and 3 more and Oesterberg in BJ Benin.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Österberg counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Österberg is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden4,2391 in 2.4K4.2KOsterberg40
FI Finland2,3291 in 2.4K2.3KOsterberg14
US United States1,5271 in 218K1.5KOsterberg212
BJ Benin≈730 est.≈1 in 18K—Oesterberg4
DE Germany≈440 est.≈1 in 180K—Osterberg54
CH Switzerland≈130 est.≈1 in 67K—Osterberg1
AT Austria≈70 est.≈1 in 126K—Osterberg5

4,239 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling österberg. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Österberg is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Osterberg, Ö̈sterberg

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States

    Also written Osterberg

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Finland

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Osterberg

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, United States, Sweden, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Osterberg

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Sweden, United States, Benin

    Also written Osterberg

24 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Martina Bergman-Österberg, b. 1849Agda Österberg, b. 1891Henning Österberg, b. 1899Anna-Lisa Österberg, b. 1926Kaj Österberg, b. 1942Bosse Österberg, b. 1942Eva Österberg, b. 1942Sven-Erik Österberg, b. 1955Birger Österberg, b. 1964Mikael Österberg, b. 1986

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalHej ,Dear Österberg, (English)
InformalHej ,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Österberg
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—4.2K#226
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—2.3K#856
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—1K—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Österberg?
A machine transcription gives /œs̪t̪ɛrbɛrj/ (IPA) for Swedish.
In which country does Österberg have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Österberg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled osterberg.
Where is Österberg most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Österberg is densest in Finland — about 1 in 2.4 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Österberg?
In Sweden, the national register counted 4,239 people named Österberg, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.

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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B6sterberg

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Österberg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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