Prestán
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Tribunal Electoral, 2024
Prestán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Panama than in any other country. Recorded meaning: prêter, emprunter.
- PAPanama≈1 in 29Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 450Kfew records
- HNHonduras≈1 in 710Kfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Panama (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Panama, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Prestan in PA Panama, CO Colombia, US United States and 3 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)prêter, emprunter
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Prestán is found
(measured from records)Prestán 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PA Panama | #907 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 1 | Prestan | 16 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 453K | — | Prestan | 22 |
| US United States | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 11M | 6 | Prestan | 16 |
| HN Honduras | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 714K | — | Prestan | 1 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 35M | — | Prestan | 7 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 15M | — | Prestan | 3 |
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: Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present). 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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Prestán mean, and where does it come from?
- prêter, emprunter Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Prestán?
- Mondonomo estimates about 155 people named Prestán in Panama, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prestan. After it come Colombia, United States, Honduras and Mexico; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Prestán?
- Mondonomo estimates about 160 people in Panama have Prestán as their first surname, about 1 in 29 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Prestán compared with other names?
- In Panama, Prestán is the 907th most common surname of 39,844 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Prestán?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/prest%C3%A1nThe 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, “Prestán” — ranked 1774th in Panama (Tribunal Electoral). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.