Staven
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/stəvən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Staven is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 11K
- FIFinland1 in 127K
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 Staven 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
- 91 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
480 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 Staeven in IE Ireland.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Staven 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 | 480 | 1 in 11K | 480 | Staven | 7 |
| US United States | 156 | 1 in 2.1M | 205 | Staven | 91 |
| DE Germany | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Staven | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Staven | 16 |
| FI Finland | 44 | 1 in 127K | 44 | Staven | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Staven | 1 |
| BE Belgium | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 492K | — | Staven | 2 |
| IE Ireland | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Staeven | 1 |
480 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Staven is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, masculine singular passive participle of stavit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of stav
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, plural of staf
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, to confirm
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)
- Knut Stavenb. 1954NONorwegian politician
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Staven?
- A machine transcription gives /stəvən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Staven have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 480 people named Staven, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled staven.
- Where is Staven most common?
- Staven is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Staven?
- In Norway, the national register counted 480 people named Staven, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Staven?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stavenThe 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, “Staven”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.