Tosten

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/tɑstɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Tosten is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 617K
  • JMJamaica≈1 in 726K

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.

United States (measured from records)

228 people, 2010

Sources
110 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 617K (inferred from the name graph)

France, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tosten 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.

Where Tosten is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2281 in 1.5M268Tosten110
FR France≈110 est.≈1 in 617K11——
IN India≈40 est.≈1 in 33M—Tosten2
DE Germany≈13 est.≈1 in 6.1M—Tosten22
NL Netherlands≈10 est.≈1 in 1.7M—Tosten2
NO Norway≈5 est.≈1 in 1.2M30—1
JM Jamaica≈4 est.≈1 in 726K—Tosten1

228 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tosten is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tösten

  • Norwegian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Tösten

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tösten

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Tösten

21 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Tosten 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 enm, To toast; to brown bread.

    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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Tosten,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Tosten
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020268#77,203
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000230#77,472
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010228#82,613
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194126—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197125—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191124—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195120—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190117—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198114—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192114—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199111—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196111—

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 Tosten?
A machine transcription gives /tɑstɪn/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Tosten have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 228 people named Tosten, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tosten.
How common is the name Tosten?
In the United States, the national register counted 228 people named Tosten in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.

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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, “Tosten”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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