Easterling
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Easterling is a surname, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Possibly modeled on Dutch oosterling. Compare sterling.
- USUnited States1 in 40K◐
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 84K
- PKPakistan1 in 11K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈31K ◐
- Sources
- 160 ●
- 1 in 11K ◐
across 13 countries
73K records
Official registry-verified
Pakistan
Meaning & origin●
Possibly modeled on Dutch oosterling. Compare sterling.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by estimated bearers.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #439 | ≈21K△ | 275 rec. | 1 in 11K | — | Easterling | 1 |
| US United States | — | ≈8.4K | 67K rec. | 1 in 40K | 8.4K | Easterling | 160 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈779 | 2.3K rec. | 1 in 84K | — | Easterling | 18 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈502 | 918 rec. | 1 in 75K | — | Easterling | 14 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈307△ | 132 rec. | 1 in 96K | — | Easterling | 3 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈212 | 572 rec. | 1 in 120K | — | Easterling | 8 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈123 | 152 rec. | 1 in 653K | — | Easterling | 20 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈113 | 159 rec. | 1 in 55K | — | Easterling | 1 |
| IN India | — | ≈106 | 84 rec. | 1 in 13M | — | Easterling | 1 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈96 | 172 rec. | 1 in 54K | — | Easterling | 2 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈37 | 23 rec. | 1 in 237K | — | Easterling | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈20 | 34 rec. | 1 in 852K | — | Easterling | 3 |
Roughly 21K people in Pakistan bear this name (about 1 in 11K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English75K95%
- Spanish1.5K2%
- Italian3141%
- Arabic2671%
- French2181%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 74,775 | 95% |
| Spanish | 1,516 | 2% |
| Italian | 314 | 1% |
| Arabic | 267 | 1% |
| French | 218 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Ruth M. Easterlingb. 1910USAmerican politician
- Howard Easterlingb. 1911USAmerican baseball player; Negro League baseball player for the Homestead Grays
- P. E. Easterlingb. 1934GBBritish classical scholar
- Ray Easterlingb. 1949USAmerican football safety in the National Football League (1949-2012)
- Rita Easterlingb. 1955USAmerican basketball player (1955-)
- Keller Easterlingb. 1959USAmerican architect, urbanist, writer, and teacher
- Ricky Easterlingb. 1983USUS-German basketball coach
- Addison Raeb. 2000USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and actress (born 2000)
- Carlos EasterlingUSbasketball player
- Richard EasterlingUSAmerican record producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 7 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.4K | #4,201 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.8K | #4,399 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.8K | #4,227 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #18,927 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 5 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Easterling?
- We estimate roughly 31 thousand people bear Easterling (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Easterling have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 21 thousand people bear Easterling in Pakistan, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled easterling.
- Where is Easterling most common?
- Easterling is densest in Pakistan, where we estimate about 1 in 11 thousand people carry it.
- How common is Easterling compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Easterling is the 439th most common surname of 26,815 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Easterling mean?
- Recorded meaning: Possibly modeled on Dutch oosterling. Compare sterling.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Easterling” — the 439th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.