Rüsten
surname · Latin script
Meaning: to equip, to arm
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rüsten is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 3.1K
- FIFinland1 in 186K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
1,764 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rusten in NO Norway, US United States, AU Australia 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(measured from records)
to equip, to arm
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rüsten 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 | 1,764 | 1 in 3.1K | 1.8K | Rusten | 25 |
| US United States | 201 | 1 in 1.7M | 229 | Rusten | 125 |
| AU Australia | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 400K | — | Rusten | 31 |
| DE Germany | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Rüsten | 20 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Rusten | 4 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 24 | 1 in 425K | 24 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 234K | listed | — | 1 |
1,764 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)
Rüsten 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 Serbo-Croatian, jasenak; oronim
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rüsten mean, and where does it come from?
- to equip, to arm Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Rüsten have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Rüsten, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rusten.
- Where is Rüsten most common?
- Rüsten is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Rüsten?
- In Norway, the national register counted 1,764 people named Rüsten, about 1 in 3.1 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Rüsten?
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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%BCstenThe 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, “Rüsten”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.