Pastrana
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries
/pasˈtɾana/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Pastrana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Pastrana. This surname is predominantly found in Puerto Rico.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 2.4K
- COColombia≈1 in 3.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Honduras, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Spanish Pastrana. This surname is predominantly found in Puerto Rico.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Pastrana is found
(measured from records)Pastrana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #629 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | 472 | Pastrana | 155 |
| PH Philippines | #883 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Pastrana | 60 |
| CO Colombia | #477 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 9 | Pastrana | 104 |
| AR Argentina | #633 | 8,092 | 1 in 5.6K | 8.1K | Pastrana | 61 |
| HN Honduras | #190 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Pastrana | 26 |
| NI Nicaragua | #230 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Pastrana | 17 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Julia Pastranab. 1834MXMexican side show performer
- Andrés Pastrana Arangob. 1954COPresident of Colombia from 1998 to 2002
- Travis Pastranab. 1983USAmerican professional motorsports competitor and stunt performer
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)Evidence
(measured from records)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pastrana mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Pastrana. This surname is predominantly found in Puerto Rico. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Pastrana?
- In Spanish /pasˈtɾana/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pastrana?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Pastrana in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pastrana. After it come Philippines, Colombia, Argentina and Honduras; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Pastrana?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 8,092 people named Pastrana, about 1 in 5.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Pastrana compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Pastrana is the 629th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pastranaThe 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, “Pastrana” — the 629th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.