Voster
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/voʊstɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Voster is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 14K(measured from records)
- BJBenin≈1 in 44K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 58K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈980 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Voster 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Voster | 24 |
| NO Norway | 382 | 1 in 14K | 382 | Voster | 9 |
| BJ Benin | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Voster | 1 |
| US United States | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | — | Voster | 59 |
| NL Netherlands | 40 | 1 in 432K | 40 | Voster | 7 |
| SE Sweden | 6 | 1 in 1.7M | 6 | — | 1 |
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Voster 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 Latin, alternative form of vester (“your, yours, of you”)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 382 | #3,827 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 40 | #35,090 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 6 | #52,259 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Voster?
- A machine transcription gives /voʊstɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Voster have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 975 people named Voster in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled voster.
- Where is Voster most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Voster is densest in Norway — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Voster?
- In Norway, the national register counted 382 people named Voster, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Voster?
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/vosterThe 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, “Voster”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.