Athelstan Forename

974,243rd
Most Common
name in the World

Approximately 95 people bear this name

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Saint Kitts and Nevis

Athelstan Forename Definition:

A male name. Old English Æthelstane, compound of æthel ‘noble’ and stan ‘stone’, the name of a ting of Wessex (925-40) son of Edward the Elder. It was a common Old English name, but seems not to have survived the No man Conquest. It was revived in the 19th C, perhaps as a result of Scott’s use of it in Ivanhoe.

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Athelstan Forename Distribution

PlaceGenderIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States-321:11,329,281109,996
Nigeria
100%
151:11,837,624127,959
England
100%
111:5,054,81145,959
South Africa
100%
91:6,059,183119,004
Philippines
100%
51:21,201,895240,180
Barbados-51:57,9582,168
Trinidad and Tobago-31:453,80618,410
Liberia-11:4,412,06136,340
Sweden
100%
11:9,857,90778,968
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
100%
11:111,5807,062
Saint Kitts and Nevis-11:54,8612,604
Qatar-11:2,369,60559,530
Malaysia
100%
11:30,449,940373,101
Jamaica-11:2,883,22722,340
French Polynesia-11:277,9023,605
France-11:66,470,34085,030
Dominican Republic-11:10,431,27030,761
China-11:1,366,055,782109,249
Cayman Islands-11:61,2992,487
Canada-11:33,133,372113,810
Brazil-11:214,236,154864,335
Belize-11:354,3097,663

Athelstan Forename Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

A male name. Old English Æthelstane, compound of æthel ‘noble’ and stan ‘stone’, the name of a ting of Wessex (925-40) son of Edward the Elder. It was a common Old English name, but seems not to have survived the No man Conquest. It was revived in the 19th C, perhaps as a result of Scott’s use of it in Ivanhoe.

Æthelstan, Achestan, Athestan, Adestan Adstan, Aistan. Alestan Domesday Book 1086.

The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe

M. This almost obsolescent A. -S. ‘Christian’ (‘noble stone’) is an example of the 28 pages of names recorded by Searle as beginning with œthel, noble: cf. Ethelred.

Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge

A name of Saxon origin, signifying ‘noble stone,’ i. e. noble protection.

Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock

Teutonic (masculine) - The most noble.

What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody

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