Mesta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: feminine singular of mesto (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mesta/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Mesta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- MXMexico≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 38K
- UYUruguay1 in 109K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Mesta
- Spanish:/mesta/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)feminine singular of mesto
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Mesta is found
(measured from records)Mesta 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 44 | Mesta | 75 |
| US United States | 1,243 | 1 in 268K | 1.2K | Mesta | 117 |
| PE Peru | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Mesta | 37 |
| IN India | 419 | 1 in 3.2M | 419 | Mesta | 6 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | listed | — | — |
| RE Réunion | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Mesta | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 31 | 1 in 109K | 31 | Mesta | 8 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Mesta is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Slovak, genitive singular of mesto
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of mest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, place, location
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, upe Bulgārijā ("Mesta"), lejtece Grieķijā, kur saucas - Nesta, kopējais garums - 273 km, sākas Rilas masīvā, tek starp Pirina un Rodopu kalniem, ietek Trāķijas jūras Tasas šaurumā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Basque, "(Sal, R), cualquier reunión" A .
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)- Néstor Mesta Chairesb. 1908MXMexican tenor
- Carlos Mestab. 1958PEPeruvian actor
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mesta mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine singular of mesto Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mesta?
- In Spanish /mesta/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mesta?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Mesta in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mesta. After it come United States, Peru, India and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mesta?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,243 people named Mesta in 2010, about 1 in 268 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mesta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mestaThe 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, “Mesta” — ranked 2875th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.