Bustos
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bustos/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bustos is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country, where it is the 93rd most common surname.
- CRCosta Rica1 in 538(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 585
- ARArgentina1 in 608
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 347 (measured from records)
- 1 in 538 (inferred from the name graph)
74,790 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Costa Rica
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.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bustos 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #93 | 74,790 | 1 in 608 | 75K | Bustos | 120 |
| CL Chile | #114 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 585 | — | Bustos | 138 |
| CN China | — | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Bustos | 4 |
| CO Colombia | #232 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 34 | Bustos | 136 |
| US United States | — | 17,040 | 1 in 20K | 17K | Bustos | 347 |
| CR Costa Rica | #122 | 9,471 | 1 in 538 | 9.5K | Bustos | 68 |
| NI Nicaragua | #147 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Bustos | 26 |
74,790 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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)
Bustos is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, plural of bust
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)
- Ciro Bustosb. 1932ARArgentinian painter (1932-2017)
- La Tigresa del Orienteb. 1945PEnot in their usual namePeruvian singer, songwriter, internet celebrity and actress
- Cheri Bustosb. 1961USAmerican lobbyist, politician, & businessperson (1961-)
- Carlos Bustosb. 1966ARArgentinian association football player
- Mikey Bustosb. 1981CAFilipino Canadian singer and comedian and YouTuber
- Cristian Bustos Costab. 1983ESSpanish footballer
- Jorge Garcíab. 1987CLnot in their usual nameChilean weightlifter
- Álvaro Bustos Sandovalb. 1995ESSpanish footballer
- Fabricio Bustosb. 1996ARArgentine association football player
- Marco Bustosb. 1996CACanadian soccer player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 75K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 17K | #2,129 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,189 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 12K | #2,680 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 9.5K | #172 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 34 | #82 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Bustos?
- A machine transcription gives /bustos/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Bustos have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 75 thousand people named Bustos, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bustos.
- Where is Bustos most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bustos is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 538 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bustos?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 74,790 people named Bustos, about 1 in 608 residents.
- How common is Bustos compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Bustos is the 93rd most common surname of 398,256 surnames 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/bustosThe 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, “Bustos” — the 93rd most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.