Joesten
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Joesten is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 760K(inferred from the name graph)
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 3M
- NONorway1 in 29Kas Josten
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Joesten itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 223K (inferred from the name graph)
397 named Josten, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Joesten in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Josten in DE Germany, NO Norway, NL Netherlands and 2 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Joesten is found
(measured from records)Joesten 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 | 397as Josten | 1 in 838K | 419 | Joesten | 93 |
| NO Norway | 188as Josten | 1 in 29K | 188 | Josten | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | 177as Josten | 1 in 98K | 177 | Josten | 15 |
| BE Belgium | 156as Josten | 1 in 75K | 156 | Josten | 13 |
| DE Germany | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 760K | — | Josten | 103 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 223K | — | Joesten | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 12as Josten | 1 in 700K | 12 | Josten | 9 |
397 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling josten. 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 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Joachim Joestenb. 1907DEGerman-American journalist (1907-1975)
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Joesten?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 397 people named Josten, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Norway, Netherlands, Belgium and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Joesten?
- In the United States, the national register counted 397 people named Josten in 2010, about 1 in 838 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/joestenThe 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, “Joesten” — ranked 31031st in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.