Îstâ

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Îstâ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 41K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 68K
  • FIFinland1 in 71K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Belgium (measured from records)

287 people, 2008

Sources
33 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ista in BE Belgium, NL Netherlands, FR France and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Estonian

Kala (N); Skanda (N); Siva (N); Visnu (N)

Sources 3

  • Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
  • Nordic Names
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Îstâ counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Îstâ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BE Belgium2871 in 41K287Ista21
NL Netherlands2541 in 68K254Ista9
US United States1071 in 3.1M107Ista6
FI Finland791 in 71K79—1
FR France———Ista33

287 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Îstâ is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany

    Languages: English, Dutch, German

    Also written Ista, Izta, Ïsta, Ïstä, Istã

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Îstâ under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Îstâ have the most bearers?
In Belgium, the national register counted about 287 people named Îstâ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ista.
Where is Îstâ most common?
Îstâ is densest in Belgium, where the national register counts about 1 in 41 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Îstâ?
In Belgium, the national register counted 287 people named Îstâ in 2008, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Îstâ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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