Ballesté
surname · Latin script
Ballesté is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country: 737 people, counted by INE.
- UYUruguay1 in 20K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 68K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 400Kfew records
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
737 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Balleste in ES Spain, US United States, VE Venezuela 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ballesté is found
(measured from records)Ballesté 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 737 | 1 in 68K | 737 | Balleste | 70 |
| UY Uruguay | 169 | 1 in 20K | 169 | Balleste | 10 |
| CU Cuba | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Balleste | 3 |
| US United States | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | listed | Balleste | 45 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 404K | — | Balleste | 13 |
| PR Puerto Rico | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Balleste | 4 |
737 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)- Ramón Montserrat Ballestéb. 1929ESSpanish architect
- Enrique Ballestéb. 1946MXMexican actor, author, composer and theatrical producer
- Jesús Imazb. 1990ESnot in their usual nameSpanish footballer
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ballesté?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 737 people named Ballesté, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balleste. After it come Uruguay, Cuba, United States and Venezuela; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ballesté most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ballesté is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ballesté?
- In Spain, the national register counted 737 people named Ballesté, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ballesté?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ballest%C3%A9The 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, “Ballesté” — ranked 5807th in Spain (INE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.