Ilustre
surname · Latin script
Meaning: illustrious
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪlɐstə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ilustre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- RERéunion≈1 in 9.9K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 93K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
illustrious
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ilustre 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Ilustre | 54 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Ilustre | 2 |
| US United States | — | 134 | 1 in 2.5M | 139 | Ilustre | 81 |
| RE Réunion | #515 | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Ilustre | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 41 | 1 in 5.2M | 41 | Ilustre | 20 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Ilustre | 7 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Ilustre | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Ilustre 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 Basque, Ilustre. Ill[ustr]e abadesa notadea . Lazarraga B15, 1180v. Dedikatzen dio erri ilustre oni kartilla au . OA tít.. Aita Saintü ilüstria . Xarlem 138 (v. tbn. 1266) . Jaun txito argitu edo ilustre don Franzisko Longa eta Antxia . Astar II III. Iduritzen zait ez izan arren / asko beziñ ilustria . MendaroTx 27. v. tbn. CatLan 1
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Vicente Ilustreb. 1869PHFilipino politician
- Federico Ilustreb. 1912PHFilipino architect
- Heidi Ilustreb. 1977USbeach volleyball player
- Rayver Cruzb. 1989PHnot in their usual nameFilipino actor and musician
- Joshua Ilustreb. 1994USGuamanian middle-distance runner (born 1994)
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 139 | #128,411 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 134 | #127,494 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 105 | #144,908 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 41 | #120,411 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Ilustre mean, and where does it come from?
- illustrious Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ilustre?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪlɐstə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ilustre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.4 thousand people named Ilustre in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ilustre.
- How common is the name Ilustre?
- In the United States, the national register counted 134 people named Ilustre in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
- How common is Ilustre compared with other names?
- In Réunion, Ilustre is the 515th most common surname of 3,012 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ilustreThe 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, “Ilustre” — the 515th most common surname in Réunion. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.