Maéstri
surname · Latin script
Maéstri is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: VARIANTI: Maéstro, Maistri e Maistro, Maisto, Magistri 0 Magistris e Magistro; De Magistris e De Magistri.
- ARArgentina1 in 75K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 117K
- ITItaly≈1 in 14K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maestri in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, US United States and 3 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)
VARIANTI: Maéstro, Maistri e Maistro, Maisto, Magistri 0 Magistris e Magistro; De Magistris e De Magistri. ALTERATI € DERIVATI: Maestrélli e Mastrélli, Maistrélli e Maisiréllo, Magistrelli, Maestrini. 7 Diffuso nel tipo Maestri prev. in Liguria, in Emilia-Romagna e in Toscana, in quello Maistri nelle Venezie, Maisto nel Napoletano, Magistri in Lombardia e anche nel Centro-Sud, ha alla base il soprannome, da un originario appellativo e nome professionale e di grado o ufficio, Maéstro (o, in forma latineggiante, Magistro), formato da maéstro (in napoletano maisto), nei vari sign. (da quello di insegnante, a quello di chi esercita una pro- t fessione 0 un’arte, o di chi é esperto in un determinato campo di studio o di attivita pratiche, a quello di capo, guida, ecc.), che continua il latino magister magistri, sul quale sono modellate le forme tarde e di prestigio Magistri(s) e Magistro. V. Mastro e Méstre.
Sources 1
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maéstri 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Maestri | 23 |
| BR Brazil | 1,814 | 1 in 117K | 1.8K | Maestri | 86 |
| US United States | 657 | 1 in 506K | 677 | Maestri | 51 |
| AR Argentina | 606 | 1 in 75K | 606 | Maestri | 52 |
| FR France | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 202K | 42 | — | — |
| VE Venezuela | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Maestri | 9 |
| UY Uruguay | 26 | 1 in 130K | 26 | Maestri | 4 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maéstri mean?
- Recorded meaning: VARIANTI: Maéstro, Maistri e Maistro, Maisto, Magistri 0 Magistris e Magistro; De Magistris e De Magistri.
- In which country does Maéstri have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Maéstri in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maestri.
- How common is the name Maéstri?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,814 people named Maéstri, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ma%C3%A9striThe 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, “Maéstri”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.