Istre
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from either of two farmsteads so named
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɪstɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Istre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 57K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 181K
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- 1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
1,841 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from either of two farmsteads so named.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Istre 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.
1,841 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Istre is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, pilsēta Francijā ("Istres"), Provansas-Alpu-Azūra Krasta reģiona Bušdironas departamentā, 42500 iedzīvotāju (2010. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #15,818 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,050 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,861 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 96 | #15,887 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 7 | — |
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 Istre mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from either of two farmsteads so named. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Istre?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɪstɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Istre have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Istre, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled istre.
- Where is Istre most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Istre is densest in Norway — about 1 in 57 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Istre?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,841 people named Istre in 2010, about 1 in 181 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/istreThe 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, “Istre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.