Mestre

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A borough of Venice, Veneto, Italy, located on the mainland

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/mest̪ɾe/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Mestre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ESSpain1 in 7.9K
  • ARArgentina1 in 31K

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)

6,297 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
183 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Portugal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MestreLatin(measured from records)
МестреCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

Mallorca, Chaves, Mestre, London; mestre; master; bef. 1400

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

How Mestre is read(measured from records)

Mestre is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish48%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Mestre in Spanish.

  • French24%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Mestre in French.

  • English13%

    A borough of Venice, Veneto, Italy, located on the mainland.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Portuguese9.6%

    master, teacher

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mestre 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.

Where Mestre is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#6026,2971 in 7.9K6.3KMestre148
FR France—≈4,000 est.≈1 in 17K449—5
PT Portugal#255≈3,700 est.≈1 in 2.8K—Mestre95
BR Brazil—2,0941 in 101K2.1KMestre83
CO Colombia—≈1,500 est.≈1 in 33K2Mestre55
AR Argentina—1,4461 in 31K1.4KMestre68
UY Uruguay—2751 in 12K275Mestre15

6,297 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mestre is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Spain

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mestré, Mèśtŕè, Mèstre, Mêstre, Mëstrĕ

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Mestré, Mèstre

  • Norwegian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Norway, Denmark

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Mėstrė, Meśtŕe

  • Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Croatia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Местре

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States

    Also written Méstŕė

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mestre is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Mallorca, Chaves, Mestre, London; mestre; master; bef. 1400

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • from mestre ‘master (craftsman)’, denoting the head of a craft or trade guild. Compare French Maitre.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • status name for a rabbi, translation of Aramaic Rabbi ‘teacher’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • habitational name from Mestre, now one of the most densely populated areas ofVenice.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Gloria Mestre, b. 1928Ramón Mestre, b. 1937Nito Mestre, b. 1952Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, b. 1956Maria Vicenta Mestre Escrivà, b. 1956Audrey Mestre, b. 1974Jordi Mestre, b. 1981Ricardo Mestre, b. 1983Dayaris Mestre Álvarez, b. 1986

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 30 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Mestre
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—6.3K#861
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—6.3K#861
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.1K#4,679
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.4K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961576—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971513—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991449—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951425—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1921397—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1941396—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981392—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931357—

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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

Where does the name Mestre come from?
Mallorca, Chaves, Mestre, London; mestre; master; bef. 1400 Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
How do you pronounce Mestre?
A machine transcription gives /mest̪ɾe/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Mestre mean?
In English, A borough of Venice, Veneto, Italy, located on the mainland.
What are other forms of the name Mestre?
In the etymology graph, Maître is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Mestre have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named Mestre, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mestre.
How common is the name Mestre?
In Spain, the national register counted 6,297 people named Mestre, about 1 in 7.9 thousand residents.
How common is Mestre compared with other names?
In Spain, Mestre is the 602nd most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Mestre” — the 602nd most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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