Östen

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a male given name from Old Norse

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/9sten/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Östen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 57K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 705K

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)

3,090 people

Sources
20 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a male given name from Old Norse

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Östen 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 Östen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden3,0901 in 3.3K3.1KÖsten20
US United States2201 in 1.5M704—1
FI Finland971 in 57K210Östen5
NO Norway≈2 est.≈1 in 3.6M10Östen1
EE Estonia≈2 est.≈1 in 705Klisted—3

3,090 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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)

Östen is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Arabic

    Also written Osten, Oesten

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written O̸sten, Ö̈sten, Osten

  • Spanish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Osten, Östën, Ostén, Ostèn, Ósten

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States

    Also written Osten, Ostén

  • a separate surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden

    Also written Osten

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Osten, Остен

  • Danish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States

    Also written Osten

12 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)

100012001400160018002000Eystein I of Norway, b. 1088Eystein II, b. 1125Eystein Meyla, b. 1157Östen Undén, b. 1886Øystein Ore, b. 1899Øystein Dolmen, b. 1947Øystein Olsen, b. 1952Øystein Aarseth, b. 1968Øystein Pettersen, b. 1983Øystein Bråten, b. 1995
  • Eystein I of Norwayb. 1088NOnot in their usual nameKing of Norway (1088-1123)
  • Eystein IIb. 1125NOnot in their usual nameKing of Norway
  • Eystein Meylab. 1157NOnot in their usual nameElected a rival King of Norway during the Norwegian Civil War (1157–1177)
  • Östen Undénb. 1886SESwedish professor, politician and cabinet minister (1886-1974)
  • Øystein Oreb. 1899NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian mathematician (1899–1968)
  • Øystein Dolmenb. 1947NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian singer
  • Øystein Olsenb. 1952NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian civil servant
  • Øystein Aarsethb. 1968NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian black metal musician (1968–1993)
  • Øystein Pettersenb. 1983NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian cross-country skier
  • Øystein Bråtenb. 1995NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian freestyle skier

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)

InformalHej Östen,Hi Östen, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Östen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—3.1K#817
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)19991.4K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20001.3K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20011.3K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20021.3K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20031.3K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20041.2K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20051.2K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20061.2K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20071.2K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20081.2K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20091.1K—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name 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

What does the name Östen mean, and where does it come from?
a male given name from Old Norse Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Östen?
A machine transcription gives /9sten/ (IPA) for Swedish.
Is Östen a male or female name?
Östen is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Östen?
In the etymology graph, Sten is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Östen have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Östen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled östen.
Where is Östen most common?
Östen is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Östen?
In Sweden, the national register counted 3,090 people named Östen, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B6sten

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, “Östen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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