Maestri
surname · Latin script
Meaning: status name for a master craftsman or a scholar, from maestro ‘master’ (Latin magister)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɑˈɛstɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maestri is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 75K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 117K
- ITItaly≈1 in 14K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
status name for a master craftsman or a scholar, from maestro ‘master’ (Latin magister).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maestri 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Maestri | 23 |
| BR Brazil | 1,814 | 1 in 117K | 1.8K | Maestri | 86 |
| US United States | 657 | 1 in 506K | 677 | Maestri | 51 |
| AR Argentina | 606 | 1 in 75K | 606 | Maestri | 52 |
| FR France | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 202K | 42 | — | — |
| VE Venezuela | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Maestri | 9 |
| UY Uruguay | 26 | 1 in 130K | 26 | Maestri | 4 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the xinhua-italian-manual register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Maestri 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 Italian, forma plural de Maestro
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Anna Maestrib. 1924ITItalian actress (1924-1988)
- Cesare Maestrib. 1929ITItalian mountain climber
- Giancarlo Maestrib. 1933ITItalian actor
- George Maestrib. 1960American animator
- Luca Maestrib. 1963ITAmerican chief financial officer
- Ambrogio Maestrib. 1970ITItalian opera singer
- Flavio Maestrib. 1973PEPeruvian footballer
- Alessandro Maestrib. 1985ITItalian former baseball player and coach
- Yoann Maestrib. 1988FRFrench rugby union player
- Mirco Maestrib. 1991ITItalian cyclist
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.8K | #5,355 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 677 | #35,729 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 657 | #34,465 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 606 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 602 | #35,387 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 62 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 56 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 45 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 38 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Maestri mean, and where does it come from?
- status name for a master craftsman or a scholar, from maestro ‘master’ (Latin magister). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Maestri?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑˈɛstɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Maestri have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Maestri in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maestri.
- How common is the name Maestri?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,814 people named Maestri, about 1 in 117 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maestriThe 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, “Maestri”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.