Maisto

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from a Campanese variant of maestro ‘master’ (Latin magister), probably a status name for a master craftsman or a scholar

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/məɪstoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Maisto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 646K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1M
  • ESSpain1 in 1.5M

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)

298 people, 2010

Sources
97 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 646K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from a Campanese variant of maestro ‘master’ (Latin magister), probably a status name for a master craftsman or a scholar. Compare Maestri.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Maisto 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 Maisto is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2981 in 1.1M298Maisto34
ES Spain341 in 1.5M34Maisto4
BR Brazil331 in 6.4M33——
CH Switzerland131 in 646K13Maisto6
BE Belgium61 in 2M6—2

298 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Maisto is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Mâistô

35 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)

Maisto is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, variante meridional de Maistro

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Variante di Maestri

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • In Filipino, obsolete form of maestro: teacher

    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)

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)

FormalDear Maisto,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Maisto
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010298#66,371
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000279#66,274
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020275#75,616
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—34#58,873
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—34#57,670
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—33#139,729
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202413#50,156
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20086#92,295
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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

Where does the name Maisto come from?
from a Campanese variant of maestro ‘master’ (Latin magister), probably a status name for a master craftsman or a scholar. Compare Maestri. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Maisto?
A machine transcription gives /məɪstoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Maisto mean?
Recorded meaning: from a Campanese variant of maestro ‘master’ (Latin magister), probably a status name for a master craftsman or a scholar.
In which country does Maisto have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 298 people named Maisto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maisto.
Where is Maisto most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maisto is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 646 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Maisto?
In the United States, the national register counted 298 people named Maisto in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million 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, “Maisto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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