Musto
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person who lives near a meeting place; from Middle English motestowe 'meeting place'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈməstoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Musto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 92K
- USUnited States1 in 126K
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.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 237 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person who lives near a meeting place; from Middle English motestowe 'meeting place'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Musto 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Musto | 3 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 22K | listed | Musto | 40 |
| US United States | — | 2,642 | 1 in 126K | 2.6K | Musto | 237 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Musto | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Musto | 82 |
| SV El Salvador | #648 | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Musto | 8 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 314 | 1 in 11K | 314 | Musto | 23 |
| FI Finland | — | 192 | 1 in 29K | 192 | Musto | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Musto 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 English, 'dweller by the moot-stow', OE (ge)mōt-stōw, a common meeting-place name; first attested Ralph atte Mustowe 1327
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, topographic name for someone who hved near a piece of open ground used as a meeting place, from Middle English motestow ‘meeting’, ‘assembly’ (Old English (ge)mdt) + stow ‘place’, ‘site’ (see Stow). The surname Musto is now found mainly in South Wales.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, probably from Greek moustos, Latin mustus ‘must’ (fermenting wine), hence perhaps a nickname for someone who made wine. Combinations such as Moustogiannis ‘musty John’ are also found.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of mustum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, a given name for a cow
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)
- James Mustob. 1899USAmerican politician
- William Mustob. 1917USAmerican politician
- Ray Mustob. 1929USAmerican politician
- Keith Mustob. 1936GBBritish sailor and businessman
- John Mustob. 1954USAmerican composer
- Michael Mustob. 1955USAmerican journalist
- Margarita Mustob. 1955UYUruguayan writer
- Marcello Mustob. 1976ITCanadian political scientist
- Damián Mustob. 1987ARArgentinian association football player
- Lorenzo Mustob. 1996ITassociation football player
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 34 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.6K | #11,846 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #11,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,872 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 314 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 192 | #7,720 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 54 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Musto mean, and where does it come from?
- Person who lives near a meeting place; from Middle English motestowe 'meeting place'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Musto?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈməstoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Musto have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.9 thousand people named Musto in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled musto.
- How common is the name Musto?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,642 people named Musto in 2010, about 1 in 126 thousand residents.
- How common is Musto compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Musto is the 648th most common surname of 35,145 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mustoThe 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, “Musto” — the 648th most common surname in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.