Røst
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Røst is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 10K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 4.6Kas Roest
- DKDenmark1 in 51Kas Roest
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Røst 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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
3,788 named Roest, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Roest in NL Netherlands, US United States, DK Denmark and 1 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 across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Røst 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 3,788as Roest | 1 in 4.6K | 3.8K | Roest | 23 |
| NO Norway | 534 | 1 in 10K | 534 | Røst | 12 |
| US United States | 250as Roest | 1 in 1.3M | 250 | Roest | 25 |
| DK Denmark | 114as Roest | 1 in 51K | 114 | Roest | 32 |
| BE Belgium | 55as Roest | 1 in 213K | 55 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 17as Roest | 1 in 600K | 17 | Roest | 3 |
3,788 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Røst 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, a small island municipality of Lofoten district, Nordland, Norway
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, voice
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)- John Røstb. 1887NONorwegian sportsperson
- Oddvar Røstb. 1909NONorwegian journalist and writer (1909-1975)
- Hanne Røstb. 1936badminton player
- Øyvind Røstb. 1950NONorwegian athletics competitor
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 534 | #2,502 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #69,651 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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
- In which country does Røst have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 3.8 thousand people named Roest, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Røst most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Røst is densest in Norway — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Røst?
- In Norway, the national register counted 534 people named Røst, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Røst?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%B8stThe 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, “Røst”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.