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Around the globe, Pasto (Pastor , Pasto , Bašta ) is a common male first name. The first name Pasto is habitual in Guam, where it is quite a common male name, Nicaragua, and Peru, where it is quite a rare masculine name. Measured by absolute frequency, this name is the most popular in Mexico, Philippines, and Peru. Likewise, Pasto is the last name as well as the forename.
Pasto 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.