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Worldwide, Pasteur (Pastor , Pasteur , باستور ) is a common male given name. The first name Pasteur is characteristic of Guam, where it is quite a common boy's name, Nicaragua, and Peru, where it is quite a rare masculine name. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in Mexico, Philippines, and Peru. Likewise, Pasteur is the last name as well as the forename.
Pasteur is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Pastor Kölling , the character from Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks; Pastor Manders , the character in the play "Ghosts"; Pastor Oberlin , the operatic character in the opera Jakob Lenz by Wolfgang Rihm; Pastor , the operatic character in the opera The Amber Witch and Pastor , the operatic character in the opera Khovanshchina by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky.