Néstor
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Greek; possibly from a pre-Indo-European Mediterranean root
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nɛstor/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Néstor is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Uruguay it is the 50th most common given name.
- ARArgentina≈1 in 300(inferred from the name graph)
- PYParaguay≈1 in 406
- UYUruguay≈1 in 430
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 (inferred from the name graph)
- #833 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 376 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 300 (inferred from the name graph)
≈150,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nestor in AR Argentina, PH Philippines, PE Peru and 5 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)
Greek; possibly from a pre-Indo-European Mediterranean root. Name of the old wise king of Pylos.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Néstor 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 | #116 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 300 | 163 | Nestor | 138 |
| PH Philippines | #95 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 739 | — | Nestor | 105 |
| VE Venezuela | #170 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 709 | — | Nestor | 86 |
| CO Colombia | #203 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 53 | Nestor | 150 |
| PE Peru | #217 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 945 | — | Nestor | 96 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 22,036 | 1 in 767 | 22K | Nestor | 60 |
| PY Paraguay | #91 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 406 | — | Nestor | 47 |
| UY Uruguay | #50 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 430 | — | Nestor | 64 |
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); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Néstor is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Flecha
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Néstor Almendrosb. 1930ESSpanish director of photography and director (1930–1992)
- Néstor Kirchnerb. 1950ARPresident of Argentina from 2003 to 2007
- Néstor Clausenb. 1962ARArgentine footballer and manager
- Néstor Gorositob. 1964ARArgentine association football player
- Nestor Carbonellb. 1967USAmerican actor
- Néstor Fabbrib. 1968ARArgentine association football player
- Néstor Cantillanab. 1973CLChilean actor
- Néstor Pitanab. 1975ARformer actor and football referee
- Néstor Ortigozab. 1984PYParaguayan soccer player
- Néstor Araujob. 1991MXMexican association football player
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Néstor come from?
- Greek; possibly from a pre-Indo-European Mediterranean root. Name of the old wise king of Pylos. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- What are other forms of the name Néstor?
- In the etymology graph, Nestori is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Néstor?
- A machine transcription gives /nɛstor/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Néstor a male or female name?
- Néstor is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Néstor mean?
- Recorded meaning: Greek; possibly from a pre-Indo-European Mediterranean root.
- In which country does Néstor have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 152 thousand people named Néstor in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nestor.
- How common is the name Néstor?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 22,036 people named Néstor in 2024, about 1 in 767 residents.
- How common is Néstor compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Néstor is the 116th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Néstor?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%A9storThe 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, “Néstor” — the 116th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.