Oesterling

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

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Oesterling is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 561 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Swedish Österling.

  • USUnited States1 in 593K(measured from records)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 780Kfew records
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M

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 Oesterling itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

561 people, 2010

Record sources
160 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 228K (inferred from the name graph)

Singapore, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Østerling in DK Denmark.

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 Swedish Österling.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Oesterling is found

(measured from records)

Oesterling 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 Oesterling is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5611 in 593K561Oesterling160
GB United Kingdom≈88 est.≈1 in 784K—Oesterling4
IN India≈37 est.≈1 in 39M—Oesterling1
PH Philippines≈31 est.≈1 in 3.7M—Oesterling1
SG Singapore≈26 est.≈1 in 228K—Oesterling1
NZ New Zealand≈20 est.≈1 in 262K—Oesterling1
DK Denmark17as Østerling1 in 345K17Østerling10

561 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Osterling, Österling, Öesterling, Oeesterling

30 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.

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).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalDear Oesterling,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

6 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 Oesterling mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Swedish Österling. Recorded by Wiktionary.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Oesterling?
In the United States, the national register counted about 561 people named Oesterling, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oesterling. After it come United Kingdom, India, Philippines and Singapore; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Oesterling?
In the United States, the national register counted 561 people named Oesterling in 2010, about 1 in 593 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, “Oesterling” — ranked 39212th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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