Røstad
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/røːstɑd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Røstad is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 534K
- SESweden1 in 3.4M
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 Røstad 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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
1,716 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Roestad in US United States.
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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Røstad 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 1,716 | 1 in 3.2K | 1.7K | Røstad | 22 |
| DK Denmark | 11 | 1 in 534K | 11 | Røstad | 4 |
| US United States | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 90M | — | Roestad | 7 |
| SE Sweden | 3 | 1 in 3.4M | 3 | — | 1 |
1,716 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Petter Andreas Røstadb. 1873NONorwegian farmer
- Gunnar Røstadb. 1874NONorwegian musician
- Anton Røstadb. 1892NONorwegian teacher
- Paul Andreas Røstadb. 1908NONorwegian photographer (1908-1986)
- Gudrun Røstadb. 1909NONorwegian swimmer (1909-1992)
- Johan Andreas Røstadb. 1911NONorwegian jazz musician
- Helge Røstadb. 1923NONorwegian judge (1923-1994)
- Bjørn Røstadb. 1951NONorwegian musician
- Marita Røstadb. 1978NONorwegian Singer-songwriter
- Linda Røstadb. 1983NONorwegian 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1.7K | #589 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 11 | #36,472 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #64,410 |
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
- How do you pronounce Røstad?
- A machine transcription gives /røːstɑd/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- In which country does Røstad have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Røstad, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled røstad.
- Where is Røstad most common?
- Røstad is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Røstad?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,716 people named Røstad, about 1 in 3.2 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/r%C3%B8stadThe 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, “Røstad”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.