Bustamanté

surname · Latin script

Bustamanté is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish, derived from the town in Cantabria, Spain.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 4.4K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 14K
  • ECEcuador1 in 725

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.

Argentina (measured from records)

46,021 people

Sources
390 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 725 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bustamante in US United States, AR Argentina, PH Philippines and 2 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)

From Spanish, derived from the town in Cantabria, Spain.

Sources 5

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bustamanté 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 Bustamanté is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina—46,0211 in 98846KBustamante5
US United States—24,5361 in 14K25KBustamante390
EC Ecuador—23,3331 in 72523KBustamante36
ES Spain—11,3481 in 4.4K11KBustamante73
BR Brazil—3,7871 in 56K3.8K—4
UY Uruguay—3,5081 in 9663.5K——
CR Costa Rica—3,0241 in 1.7K3K—1
PH Philippines#321———Bustamante108

46,021 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bustamanté 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

What does the name Bustamanté mean, and where does it come from?
From Spanish, derived from the town in Cantabria, Spain. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 3 other sources.
In which country does Bustamanté have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 46 thousand people named Bustamanté, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bustamante.
Where is Bustamanté most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bustamanté is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 725 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bustamanté?
In Argentina, the national register counted 46,021 people named Bustamanté, about 1 in 988 residents.
How common is Bustamanté compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Bustamanté is the 321st most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Bustamanté” — the 321st most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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