Nastase
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Romanian: from a reduced form of the personal name Anastas
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/nəsteɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nastase is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 948K(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 1.9K
- ESSpain1 in 82K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a reduced form of the personal name Anastas.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nastase is read
(measured from records)Nastase is one spelling over 3 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.
- English38%
Hie, Romanian tennis player
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Romanian36%
from a reduced form of the personal name Anastas.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- French6.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nastase in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)Nastase 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Nastase | 38 |
| IT Italy | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Nastase | 11 |
| ES Spain | 613 | 1 in 82K | 613 | Nastase | 7 |
| US United States | 351 | 1 in 948K | 375 | Nastase | 126 |
| DE Germany | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 667K | — | Nastase | 33 |
| NO Norway | 34 | 1 in 161K | 34 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 32 | 1 in 174K | 32 | — | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 613 | #6,782 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 613 | #6,770 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 375 | #58,437 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 351 | #57,914 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 338 | #56,526 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 34 | #32,846 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 32 | #33,211 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/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
- What does the name Nastase mean, and where does it come from?
- from a reduced form of the personal name Anastas. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Nastase?
- A machine transcription gives /nəsteɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nastase have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Nastase in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nastase.
- How common is the name Nastase?
- In Spain, the national register counted 613 people named Nastase, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nastaseThe 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, “Nastase”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.