Fölster

surname · Latin script

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 250K
  • CACanada≈1 in 346K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

609 people

Sources
126 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 250K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

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 Folster in US United States, BR Brazil, CA Canada and 3 more.

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)

Fölster 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 Fölster is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil6091 in 348K609Folster3
DE Germany≈320 est.≈1 in 250K—Fölster41
US United States2181 in 1.5M260Folster126
CA Canada≈110 est.≈1 in 346K—Folster47
GB United Kingdom≈41 est.≈1 in 1.6M—Folster14
IE Ireland≈9 est.≈1 in 599K—Folster1
NZ New Zealand≈7 est.≈1 in 668K—Folster8

609 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Folster

  • Swedish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden

    Also written Folster

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Folster

  • Arabic name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Folster

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Colombia, Canada

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Folster

2 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)

19201940196019802000Heinz-Wilhelm Fölster, b. 1925Kaj Fölster, b. 1936Uta Fölster, b. 1956Stefan Fölster, b. 1959Sofia Fölster, b. 1991Tobias Fölster, b. 1994

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)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

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 Fölster have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 609 people named Fölster, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled folster.
How common is the name Fölster?
In Brazil, the national register counted 609 people named Fölster, about 1 in 348 thousand residents.

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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, “Fölster”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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