Given name & surname
Eastman
“a man from the east”
Eastman is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “a man from the east.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “a man from the east.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eastman through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12
- 12 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1913
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1933. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1913. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 16,251 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Eastman’s family of names
Eastman has a related form in East. Eastman has a related form in Easte. Eastman has a related form in Eest.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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