Given name & surname · also Late Greek, Old French
Eustace
“having an abundance of grapes”
Eustace is used as a given name and a surname. One Greek interpretation is “having an abundance of grapes.”
Original GreekΕυστάθιος
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “having an abundance of grapes.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Old French.
How it developed
In English usage, Eustace developed from Eustathius. In English usage, Eustace developed from Εὐστάθιος.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1882. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Eustace through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 705
- 705 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 29 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 29 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 764 as a first name in 2020; 1,384 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.
Eustace’s family of names
In French usage, Eustace has a diminutive in Stacy. Eustace shares a linguistic root with Eustaquio. Eustace has a related form in Eustacio.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Eustace has relatives in 17 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Nicknames & forms 19
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 37
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- ΕυστάθιοςGreek
- Εὐστάθιοςroot · Ancient Greek
- ΕὔσταχυςAncient Greek
- ΕύσταχυςGreek
- Ostapdoublet · English
- Eustaciafeminine form
- Efstathiosequivalent
- Eustachequivalent
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- Στάθηςequivalent
- Eustacchioequivalent
- Evstahijequivalent
- Eusztákequivalent
- Stathisequivalent
- Eustatheequivalent
- Eustachijusequivalent
- Остапequivalent
- Statcheequivalent
- Юстасderivative · Russian
- EustácCzech
- Eustazyequivalent
- Евстафийequivalent
- Eustaquiequivalent
- Eustathiusroot · Latin
- Оста́пUkrainian
- Ю́стас m EnglishRussian
- Аста́фий cognateRussian
- Евста́фий cognateRussian
- EustáquioPortuguese
- EustachiuszPolish
- यूस्टसMarathi
- ユースタスJapanese
- Eustachiocognate · Italian
- EŭstakoEsperanto
- ЕвстатийBulgarian
- EfstáthiAlbanian
- EustáciAlbanian
- Eustathiosbase name
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Eustace
- Eustace III of BoulogneCount of Boulogne1050–1125
- Eustace IV of BoulogneHeir apparent of King Stephen of England (died 1153)1129–1153
- Eustace II of BoulogneCount of Boulogne from 1049 to 1087
- Eustace GrenierFlemish Crusader, lord of Caesarea and Sidon1001–1123
- Eustace I of BoulogneCount of Boulogne from 1024 to 1047
- Eustace MullinsAmerican antisemitic populist writer, biographer, and Holocaust denier (1923–2010)
- Eustace MilesEnglish real tennis player (1868–1948)
- Eustace ChapuysImperial ambassador to the court of Henry VIII
- Eustace the Monkmercenary and pirate from France1170–1217
Characters named Eustace: Eustace Scrubb (fictional boy, a lead character in The Chronicles of Narnia, books 3 and 4).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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