Given name
Östen
“luck”·“stone”
Östen is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Swedish.
Original Old NorseEysteinn
Meaning & origin
What it means
Östen is built from elements meaning “luck” and “stone”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Östen’s family of names
In Swedish usage, Östen shares a linguistic root with the Norwegian Nynorsk form Øystein. In Swedish usage, Östen continues an earlier form in Eysteinn.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Östen
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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Wögen
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Aðalsteinn
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>99% boys
Allinen
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