Bistra
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bistra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 4.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 131K
- HRCroatia1 in 132K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bistra itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bistra 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #624 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Bistra | 66 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 208as Бистра | 1 in 10K | 208 | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | — | Bistra | 49 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Bistra | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 54 | 1 in 926K | 65 | Bistra | 15 |
| HR Croatia | — | 32 | 1 in 132K | 32 | Bistra | 5 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 16 | 1 in 131K | 16 | — | 1 |
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: State Statistical Office — living population names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SURS — resident population given names. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Bistra is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, third-person singular past historic of bistrer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, inflection of bistar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, inflection of bister:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Bistra Vinarovab. 1890BGBulgarian painter (1890-1977)
- Bistra Avramovab. 1921BGBulgarian politician
- Bistra Tsvetkovab. 1926BGBulgarian historian
- Bistra Marchevab. 1950BGBulgarian actress
- Bistra Gospodinovab. 1966BGOlympic Swimmer
- Bistra Denchevab. 1986BEBelgian taekwondoka
- Bistra Manevab. 1988BGbadminton player
- Bistra NikolovaBGBulgarian jurist
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 65 | #9,882 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 54 | #26,091 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 32 | #2,943 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 23 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 16 | #2,045 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 16 | #4,117 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 15 | #2,105 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 15 | #2,083 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 15 | #2,035 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 15 | #2,013 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 15 | #1,974 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 15 | #1,936 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Is Bistra a male or female name?
- Bistra is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Bistra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Bistra in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bistra.
- How common is the name Bistra?
- In Spain, the national register counted 54 people named Bistra, about 1 in 926 thousand residents.
- How common is Bistra compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Bistra is the 624th most common given name of 22,906 given names 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/bistraThe 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, “Bistra” — the 624th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.