Esten
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Esten is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: see Easton and compare Eston . Further information: This form of the name is rare in Britain but more numerous in the USA.
- NLNetherlands1 in 443K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.2M
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
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)
- Sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 443K (inferred from the name graph)
250 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
see Easton and compare Eston . Further information: This form of the name is rare in Britain but more numerous in the USA.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nordic Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Esten 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 250 | 1 in 1.3M | 250 | Esten | 30 |
| BR Brazil | 170 | 1 in 1.2M | 170 | Esten | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | 39 | 1 in 443K | 39 | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | 7 | 1 in 7.1M | 7 | Esten | 4 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Esten | 5 |
250 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Esten is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, accusative singular of Este
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, superessive singular of est
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of est
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zza, to throw, cast, fire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, plural of Est
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)
- Harriet Estenb. 1760GBactress
- Rhoda Ann Estenb. 1834USAmerican herbarium curator and public schools administrator (1834-1901)
- Charles Estenb. 1965USAmerican actor, musician and comedian
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 240 | #31,941 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 26 | #31,941 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 5 | #27,027 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Esten mean, and where does it come from?
- see Easton and compare Eston . Further information: This form of the name is rare in Britain but more numerous in the USA. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Nordic Names.
- In which country does Esten have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 250 people named Esten, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esten.
- Where is Esten most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Esten is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 443 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Esten?
- In the United States, the national register counted 250 people named Esten in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million 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/estenThe 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, “Esten”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.