Søster
given name · Latin script
Meaning: sister (woman or girl having the same parents)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Søster is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 309K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 10M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 309K (inferred from the name graph)
19 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Soester 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(measured from records)
sister (woman or girl having the same parents)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Søster 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | 19 | 1 in 309K | 19 | Søster | 7 |
| SE Sweden | 1 | 1 in 10M | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Soester | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | 24 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 16 | — | — |
19 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 19 | #5,231 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #71,172 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Søster mean, and where does it come from?
- sister (woman or girl having the same parents) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Søster a male or female name?
- Søster is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Søster have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 19 people named Søster, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled søster.
- Where is Søster most common?
- Søster is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 309 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Søster?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 19 people named Søster, about 1 in 309 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Søster?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s%C3%B8sterThe 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, “Søster”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.