Østerby
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Østerby is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 11K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 98K
- SESweden≈1 in 238Kas Österby
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Østerby itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
558 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Österby in SE Sweden and Osterby in US United States.
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 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Østerby 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #592 | 558 | 1 in 11K | 558 | Østerby | 38 |
| NO Norway | — | 56 | 1 in 98K | 56 | Østerby | 5 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 238K | — | Österby | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 44M | — | Østerby | 3 |
| US United States | — | — | — | listed | Osterby | 6 |
558 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Edmund Østerbyb. 1876actor
- Orla Østerbyb. 1952DKDanish politician
- H.C. Østerbyb. 1955Danish politician
- Anette Østerbyb. 1959DKDanish author, active in Copenhagen
- Cecilie Egemose Østerbyb. 1989DKDanish child actress
- Fie Østerbyb. 1992DKDanish cyclist, born 1992
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 558 | #758 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 56 | #24,435 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Østerby have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 558 people named Østerby, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled østerby.
- Where is Østerby most common?
- Østerby is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Østerby?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 558 people named Østerby, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Østerby compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Østerby is the 592nd most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
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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%B8sterbyThe 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, “Østerby” — the 592nd most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.