Pástor
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pástor is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 85th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Pastor, from Latin pastor. Compare the inherited doublet păstor.
- ESSpain1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 2.2K
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.3K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
46,323 people
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Pastor in ES Spain, PE Peru, PH Philippines and 4 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)
- GermanPastor(measured from records)
- Latinpastor(measured from records)
Borrowed from German Pastor, from Latin pastor. Compare the inherited doublet păstor.
Sources 4
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pástor 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #85 | 46,323 | 1 in 1.1K | 46K | Pastor | 213 |
| PH Philippines | #996 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Pastor | 62 |
| PE Peru | #346 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Pastor | 88 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Pastor | 24 |
| BR Brazil | #972 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 228 | Pastor | 100 |
| GT Guatemala | #309 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Pastor | 24 |
| UY Uruguay | #405 | 1,523 | 1 in 2.2K | 1.5K | Pastor | 33 |
46,323 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pástor mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Pastor, from Latin pastor. Compare the inherited doublet păstor. Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Pástor have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 46 thousand people named Pástor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pastor.
- Where is Pástor most common?
- Pástor is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pástor?
- In Spain, the national register counted 46,323 people named Pástor, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Pástor compared with other names?
- In Spain, Pástor is the 85th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A1storThe 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, “Pástor” — the 85th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.