Kasti
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Turkish: intentional, deliberate
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəstɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kasti is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 169K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 785K
- USUnited States≈1 in 9.9M
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 169K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. from a pet form of the saint’s name Castulus, itself a diminutive of the Latin adjective castus ‘chaste’. 2. habitational name from any of various places so named in Bavaria. 3. from an old personal name related to Old High German, Middle High German gast ‘guest’, earlier ‘foreign warrior’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kasti is read(measured from records)
Kasti is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Hindi23%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kasti in Hindi.
- English20%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kasti in English.
- Arabic12%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kasti in Arabic.
- Turkish12%
intentional, deliberate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Indonesian7.2%
a kind of bat-and-ball games
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German6.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kasti in German.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Kasti 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 9.9M | listed | Kasti | 10 |
| FI Finland | 33 | 1 in 169K | 33 | — | 1 |
| IN India | 19 | 1 in 70M | 19 | Kasti | 11 |
| SE Sweden | 13 | 1 in 785K | 13 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Kasti is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
1. from a pet form of the saint’s name Castulus, itself a diminutive of the Latin adjective castus ‘chaste’. 2. habitational name from any of various places so named in Bavaria. 3. from an old personal name related to Old High German, Middle High German gast ‘guest’, earlier ‘foreign warrior’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Icelandic, first-person singular active present subjunctive of kasta
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, accusative/instrumental singular of kaste
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Lithuanian, to dig, rake
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 33 | #32,237 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 19 | #82,602 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 13 | #33,330 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #167,187 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Dictionary of American 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
- Where does the name Kasti come from?
- 1. from a pet form of the saint’s name Castulus, itself a diminutive of the Latin adjective castus ‘chaste’. 2. habitational name from any of various places so named in Bavaria. 3. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kasti?
- A machine transcription gives /kəstɪ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Kasti mean?
- In Turkish, intentional, deliberate
- In which country does Kasti have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 people named Kasti in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kasti.
- Where is Kasti most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kasti is densest in Finland — about 1 in 169 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kasti?
- In Finland, the national register counted 33 people named Kasti, about 1 in 169 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kastiThe 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, “Kasti”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.