Pastrana
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pastrana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Pastrana. This surname is predominantly found in Puerto Rico.
- HNHonduras≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 2.5K
- COColombia≈1 in 5.1K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
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.
Sources 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #883 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Pastrana | 60 |
| CN China | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Pastrana | 5 |
| CO Colombia | #477 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 9 | Pastrana | 104 |
| AR Argentina | #633 | 8,092 | 1 in 5.6K | 8.1K | Pastrana | 61 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Pastrana | 21 |
| HN Honduras | #190 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Pastrana | 26 |
| NI Nicaragua | #230 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | 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: 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
- Hernando Pastranab. 1921COColombian ambassador
- Misael Pastrana Borrerob. 1923COColombian lawyer and politician (1923-1997)
- Alan Pastranab. 1944USAmerican football player (1944–2021)
- Andrés Pastrana Arangob. 1954COPresident of Colombia from 1998 to 2002
- Alejandro Camachob. 1954MXnot in their usual nameMexican actor and producer
- Wilma Pastranab. 1970USFirst Lady of Puerto Rico
- Ophelia Pastranab. 1982COColombian-Mexican YouTuber
- Travis Pastranab. 1983USAmerican professional motorsports competitor and stunt performer
- Melissa Borjasb. 1986HNnot in their usual nameHonduran association football referee
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 8.1K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 9 | #107 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- 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.
- In which country does Pastrana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Pastrana in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pastrana.
- 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 the Philippines, Pastrana is the 883rd most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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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 883rd most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.