Athelstan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Old English Æðelstān 'noble stone'; first attested Adehtanus 1195 P (K)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/æθelstæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Athelstan is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- PHPhilippines
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Old English Æðelstān 'noble stone'; first attested Adehtanus 1195 P (K)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Athelstan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Adehtanus 1195 P (K); Hugo filius Athelstan, Adelstan’ 1218, 1219 AssL; Herbertus filius Edelstani 1240 Rams (Nf); William Athelston c1198 Bart (Lo); Geoffrey Athelstan 1219 AssL. OE Æðelstān ‘noble stone’. v. ALLSTON and ASTON.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, English king
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Athelstanb. 895GBKing of Wessex and first king of England (r. 924-939)
- Athelstan Braxton Hicksb. 1854GBEnglish coroner
- Athelstan Rileyb. 1858GBEnglish hymnwriter (1858-1945)
- Athelstan Rendallb. 1871GBBritish politician (1871-1948)
- Jasper Blaxlandb. 1880GBnot in their usual nameEnglish physician (1880-1963)
- Lawrence Athelstan Molesworth Rileyb. 1889GBBritish botanist (1889-1928)
- Athelstan Spilhausb. 1911ZASouth African oceanographer
- Dave Bedfordb. 1926AUnot in their usual nameAustralian rules footballer
- Athelstan Beckwithb. 1930AUchemist
- Suresh Canagarajahb. 1957USnot in their usual nameSri Lankan linguist
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)
Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 2 | — |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 1 | #110 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #146 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2022 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2020 | 1 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
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 Athelstan mean, and where does it come from?
- from Old English Æðelstān 'noble stone'; first attested Adehtanus 1195 P (K) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Athelstan?
- In the etymology graph, Aðalsteinn and Æthelstan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Athelstan?
- A machine transcription gives /æθelstæn/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Athelstan a male or female name?
- Athelstan 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.
- In which country does Athelstan have the most bearers?
- Athelstan is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/athelstanThe 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, “Athelstan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.