Hasten

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Shortened form of Dutch van Hasten, a habitational name for someone from Asten in North Brabant or Astene in the Belgian province of East Flanders, or a shortened form of van (der) Hasten, from Middle

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

Hasten is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 569K(measured from records)
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 48K
  • TNTunisia≈1 in 98K

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.

Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,100 people, est.

Sources
179 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)

Congo - Kinshasa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Hasten: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Hasten
  1. Astenin(measured from records)
  2. Middle Dutchae(measured from records)

Shortened form of Dutch van Hasten, a habitational name for someone from Asten in North Brabant or Astene in the Belgian province of East Flanders, or a shortened form of van (der) Hasten, from Middle Dutch a(e)st ‘drying room’, ‘drying kiln’, as used in the manufacture of beer or the preparation of madder for dyeing.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hasten 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 Hasten is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈2,100 est.≈1 in 48K—Hasten1
US United States5851 in 569K675Hasten179
TR Türkiye≈290 est.≈1 in 287K—Hasten7
IT Italy≈140 est.≈1 in 443K—Hasten1
TN Tunisia≈120 est.≈1 in 98K—Hasten2
IL Israel≈27 est.≈1 in 317K—Hasten8
SG Singapore≈16 est.≈1 in 379K—Hasten3

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 2020. 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)

Hasten is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hästen

35 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hasten is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, according to Reaney, a habitational name from Haston in Shropshire, which is possibly named with Old English heafod ‘head’ -i- stdn ‘stone’. However, the present-day concentration of the name in Scotland suggests that in some cases at least it could perhaps be from one of the places mentioned at Hairston.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, To move or act in a quick fashion.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, v., popd, mavila, hu-li

    as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language

  • In Basque, Imperfect participle of hasi (“to start”).

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, to hurry, to rush (on foot, in an anxious or breathless haste)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

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 9 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Hasten
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020675#35,796
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000630#34,071
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010585#37,955
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 Hasten mean, and where does it come from?
Shortened form of Dutch van Hasten, a habitational name for someone from Asten in North Brabant or Astene in the Belgian province of East Flanders, or a shortened form of van (der) Hasten, from Middle… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What are other forms of the name Hasten?
In the etymology graph, Hasty, Haste and Hast are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Hasten have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Hasten in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hasten.
How common is the name Hasten?
In the United States, the national register counted 585 people named Hasten in 2010, about 1 in 569 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, “Hasten”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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