Jasten Surname
Approximately 3,639 people bear this surname
Jasten Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malawi | 3,477 | 1:4,924 | 685 |
| Tanzania | 83 | 1:637,851 | 38,732 |
| Zimbabwe | 64 | 1:241,222 | 26,284 |
| Papua New Guinea | 5 | 1:1,630,743 | 129,019 |
| Germany | 3 | 1:26,835,153 | 452,368 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| DR Congo | 1 | 1:73,879,570 | 260,543 |
| Jordan | 1 | 1:8,842,437 | 26,010 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 11 | 1:4,565,335 | 193,764 |
The alternate forms: Jasteń (1) are calculated separately.
Jasten (2,875) may also be a first name.
Jasten Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Jasten Come From? nationality or country of origin
Jasten (Tibetan: ཇཱས་ཏན་) is most common in Malawi. It can be found in the variant forms: Jasteń. Click here for other possible spellings of Jasten.
How Common Is The Last Name Jasten? popularity and diffusion
Jasten is the 125,145th most common family name in the world, borne by around 1 in 2,002,623 people. The last name is mostly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Jasten live; 97 percent live in Southern Africa and 97 percent live in South Bantu Africa. Jasten is also the 135,615th most frequently used forename world-wide. It is borne by 2,875 people.
The surname is most numerous in Malawi, where it is borne by 3,477 people, or 1 in 4,924. Outside of Malawi this surname exists in 10 countries. It is also found in Tanzania, where 2 percent live and Zimbabwe, where 2 percent live.
Jasten Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Jasten has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Jasten surname declined 91 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Phonetically Similar Names
Jasten Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Jasten in the Tibetan language | ||
| ཇཱས་ཏན་ | jéten | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Jasten
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