Given name
Jostein
“horse”·“stone”
Jostein is a masculine given name from Old Norse. It is used in Norwegian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Jostein is built from elements meaning “horse” and “stone”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Jostein through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 6 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 6 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 6 in 1994. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Jostein’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Jostein
- Jostein GaarderNorwegian author (born 1952)
- Jostein FloNorwegian association football playerborn 1964
- Jostein HasselgårdNorwegian musicianborn 1979
- Jostein WilmannNorwegian racing cyclistborn 1953
- Jostein Gundersenassociation football playerborn 1996
- Jostein GrindhaugNorwegian footballer and manager (born 1973)
- Jostein StordahlNorwegian yacht racer and wheelchair curlerborn 1966
- Jostein PedersenNorwegian music journalistborn 1959
- Jostein Helge BernhardsenNorwegian diplomat1945–2023
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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