Trošt
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/tróːʃt/(recorded in a dictionary) Slovenian · from Wiktionary
Trošt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Trost.
- SISlovenia1 in 4.9K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 35K
- HRCroatia1 in 42K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
3,948 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Trost 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
(measured from records)Borrowed from German Trost.
Cited for this meaning 2
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
- Wiktionary
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Trošt is found
(measured from records)Trošt 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,948 | 1 in 84K | 3.9K | Trost | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | #504 | 433 | 1 in 4.9K | 433 | Trošt | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 238 | 1 in 35K | 238 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 228 | 1 in 929K | 228 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 100 | 1 in 42K | 100 | Trošt | 12 |
| BE Belgium | — | 96 | 1 in 122K | 96 | — | — |
3,948 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ivo Troštb. 1865SISlovenian writer
- Jože Troštb. 1940SISlovenian composer
- Tamara Pavasović TroštSIresearcher
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)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Trošt mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Trost. Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Trošt?
- In Slovenian /tróːʃt/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Trošt?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Trošt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled trost. After it come Slovenia, Switzerland, Brazil and Croatia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Trošt most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Trošt is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 4.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Trošt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,948 people named Trošt in 2010, about 1 in 84 thousand residents.
- How common is Trošt compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Trošt is the 504th most common surname of 13,062 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/tro%C5%A1tThe 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, “Trošt” — the 504th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.