as a Last Name
- 1,437
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Ost
Meaning & Origins
German, North German (also Öst), Swedish (also Öst), and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name from German Ost(en), Swedish öst ‘east’ denoting someone who lived to the east of a settlement or who had come there from the east. Compare East. As a Jewish name, as well as Swedish, it can be ornamental.
| 19,606th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,437
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Dakota
- has the most people named Ost per capita
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