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Jostein

Boys' name

Horse + stone

Jostein has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 1994. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Jostein, 1994

1 in 619,000

Jostein over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jostein: meaning, origin, and history

Horse + stone

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jostein means

Jostein means “horse + stone”, associated with jór and steinn.

Origin, language, and formation

Jostein is used in Norwegian.

Jostein comes through Old Norse Jósteinn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Jostein between 1994 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1994; its best national rank was #8,252 in 1994.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jostein?

Jostein had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1994
1 in 619,000
6 of 3,715,972 births
Among boys only
1 in 322,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1994
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
429,287 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jostein sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1994 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 429,287 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jostein. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Josteins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jostein was born before 1994 — so the typical Jostein is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
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1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Jostein rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (6)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#8,252
1994

Spellings of Jostein

Jostein is not the most common spelling — Justin is, with 99.2% against Jostein's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Jostein around the world

Where Jostein ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #347
    in 2025

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Jostein by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,252
1994
Peak year
1994
6 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jostein

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Jostein

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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