Erasto

given name · Latin script

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

Erasto is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Del griego Erastós, 'amado, amable', de eráō 'amar, querer'.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 361K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 250K
  • BRBrazil1 in 733K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

922 people, 2020

Sources
75 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 250K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Spanish

Del griego Erastós, 'amado, amable', de eráō 'amar, querer'.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

How Erasto is read(measured from records)

Erasto is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.

  • Spanish67%

    Del griego Erastós, 'amado, amable', de eráō 'amar, querer'.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • English14%

    variant of Erastus, Greek 'beloved'

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  • Swahili12%

    East African: 'man of peace'.

    as a nameAfrican Names

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Erasto 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 Erasto is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—9221 in 361K913Erasto75
BR Brazil—2891 in 733K381—2
GY Guyana—31 in 250K3—1
SE Sweden—11 in 10M1——
CR Costa Rica—11 in 5.1M1——
TZ Tanzania#876——2Erasto23

922 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Erasto is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Erästö

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Tanzania

    Also written Erästö

46 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)

Erasto is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • A man of peace

    as a nameThe book of African names

  • man of peace.

    as a nameAfrican 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)

1850190019502000Erasto Carranza Castro, b. 1882Erasto Gaertner, b. 1900Erasto Cortés Juárez, b. 1900Erasto Vasconcelos, b. 1947Erasto B. Mpemba, b. 1950Erasto Ensástiga Santiago, b. 1961Erasto Freitas, b. 1972Erasto Nyoni, b. 1988

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 23 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Erasto
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—63#89,008
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Erasto mean?
Recorded meaning: Del griego Erastós, 'amado, amable', de eráō 'amar, querer'.
Is Erasto a male or female name?
Erasto is a male 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 Erasto have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 922 people named Erasto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled erasto.
Where is Erasto most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Erasto is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 250 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Erasto?
In the United States, the national register counted 922 people named Erasto in 2020, about 1 in 361 thousand residents.
How common is Erasto compared with other names?
In Tanzania, Erasto is the 876th most common given name of 37,285 given names 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, “Erasto” — the 876th most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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