Oster

5,619 people in the United States were counted with the surname Oster in the 2020 census, making it the 5,915th most common in the country. That is about one person in 53,200.

By the numbers

People: 5,619
Rank: 5,915th
How common: 1 in 53,200
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from German Oster or Swedish Öster.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Oster described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Oster

Hans Oster (1887–1945)German general
Grigory Oster (born 1947)Russian children's writer
Stefan Oster (born 1965)Bishop of Passau
John Oster (born 1978)British footballer

People named Oster with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Oster

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.