Isto

given name · Latin script

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

Isto is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Short form of the biblical given name Israel.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 6.1K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 364K

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.

Finland (measured from records)

914 people

Sources
29 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Short form of the biblical given name Israel.

Sources 3

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Isto 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 Isto is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland9141 in 6.1K1.2K—2
SE Sweden281 in 364K28——
ID Indonesia———Isto29
IN India——1—1

914 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)

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

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Finland

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Îsťo

31 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)

Isto is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, this (NEUT)

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

  • In Serbo-Croatian, neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of isti

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

  • In Esperanto, A professional, a person who belongs to a profession.

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

  • In Latin, ablative masculine/neuter singular of iste

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

  • In Italian, Ist (an island of Croatia)

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

  • In mwl, this (the thing here)

    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)

1920194019601980Isto Ruoppila, b. 1935Isto Virtanen, b. 1935Isto Lysmä, b. 1936Isto Jakola, b. 1940Isto Hiltunen, b. 1967

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 9 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Isto
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.2K#679
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—914—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—28#19,849
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200028—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200127—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)199927—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200626—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200526—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200426—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200326—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200226—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201025—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 Isto mean, and where does it come from?
Short form of the biblical given name Israel. Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
Is Isto a male or female name?
Isto 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 Isto have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 914 people named Isto, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Isto most common?
Isto is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Isto?
In Finland, the national register counted 914 people named Isto, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.

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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, “Isto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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