Oste
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname from Occitan
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ostɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oste is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 36K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 511K
- BRBrazil1 in 563K
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 Oste 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
376 people
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Osté in NL Netherlands.
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)
a surname from Occitan
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oste 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 376 | 1 in 563K | 376 | Oste | 33 |
| BE Belgium | — | 325 | 1 in 36K | 325 | Oste | 16 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 263K | — | Oste | 40 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Oste | 10 |
| AR Argentina | — | 89 | 1 in 511K | 89 | Oste | 30 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 620K | — | Osté | 7 |
| SH St. Helena | #980 | — | — | — | Oste | 1 |
376 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Oste 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 Italian, innkeeper, landlord (proprietor of an osteria)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, horde (a large number of people or things)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, indefinite plural of ost
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In se, inflection of oastit:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, innkeeper, landlord
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)
- Joseph Julian Osteb. 1893BEBelgian Catholic priest
- Annibale Osteb. 1942ITItalian sculptor
- Roberto Luis Osteb. 1970ARArgentinian association football player
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 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 376 | #21,889 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 325 | #5,048 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 313 | #5,413 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 89 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Oste mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname from Occitan Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Oste?
- A machine transcription gives /ostɛ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Oste have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 376 people named Oste, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled oste.
- Where is Oste most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Oste is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 36 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Oste?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 376 people named Oste, about 1 in 563 thousand residents.
- How common is Oste compared with other names?
- In St. Helena, Oste is the 980th most common surname of 3,440 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Oste?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/osteThe 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, “Oste” — the 980th most common surname in St. Helena. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.