Bustamante
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: so called from LL bustum Amantii ‘pasture (see Busto) of Amantius', a personal name derived from LL Amans, gen. Amantis, ‘Loving’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bust̪amant̪e/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bustamante is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 600(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 725
- PEPeru≈1 in 825
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 376 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 600 (inferred from the name graph)
46,021 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 Bustamante, Spain, meaning ‘Amantius’s pasture’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bustamante is read(measured from records)
Bustamante is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish79%
so called from LL bustum Amantii ‘pasture (see Busto) of Amantius', a personal name derived from LL Amans, gen. Amantis, ‘Loving’.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- English12%
From Bustamante, Spain, meaning ‘Amantius’s pasture’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bustamante 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #152 | 46,021 | 1 in 988 | 46K | Bustamante | 125 |
| PE Peru | #115 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 825 | — | Bustamante | 129 |
| PH Philippines | #311 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Bustamante | 91 |
| CO Colombia | #216 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 18 | Bustamante | 158 |
| CL Chile | #112 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 600 | 1 | Bustamante | 138 |
| EC Ecuador | #147 | 23,333 | 1 in 725 | 23K | Bustamante | 77 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 3,508 | 1 in 966 | 3.5K | — | 47 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Bustamante is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, Bustamante: a surname from Spanish, notably borne by
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, pilsēta Meksikā, Nuevoleonas pavalsts rietumu daļā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anastasio Bustamante y Oseguerab. 1780MX4th President of Mexico (1780-1853)
- Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirvénb. 1865CUFormer Prime Minister of Cuba
- Alexander Bustamanteb. 1884JMJamaican politician and labour leader (1884–1977)
- José Luis Bustamante y Riverob. 1894PEPresident of Peru (1894-1989)
- Murilo Bustamanteb. 1966BRBrazilian mixed martial artist
- Jayro Bustamanteb. 1977GTGuatemalan film director
- Maritza Bustamanteb. 1980VEVenezuelan actress
- David Bustamanteb. 1982ESSpanish singer
- Mon Laferteb. 1983CLnot in their usual nameChilean Mexican singer-songwriter
- Gonzalo Valleb. 1996ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian footballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Bustamante come from?
- From Bustamante, Spain, meaning ‘Amantius’s pasture’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Bustamante?
- A machine transcription gives /bust̪amant̪e/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Bustamante mean?
- In Spanish, so called from LL bustum Amantii ‘pasture (see Busto) of Amantius', a personal name derived from LL Amans, gen. Amantis, ‘Loving’.
- In which country does Bustamante have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 46 thousand people named Bustamante, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bustamante.
- How common is the name Bustamante?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 46,021 people named Bustamante, about 1 in 988 residents.
- How common is Bustamante compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Bustamante is the 152nd most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bustamanteThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Bustamante” — the 152nd most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.