Nesti
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma coloquial, redução de Onesti e Ernesti
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/nesti/(machine-generated) Italian · model-generated
Nesti is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 71K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 255K
- FRFrance≈1 in 560K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)forma coloquial, redução de Onesti e Ernesti
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where the surname Nesti is found
(measured from records)Nesti 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 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | Nesti | 23 |
| US United States | 152 | 1 in 2.2M | 165 | Nesti | 122 |
| FR France | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 561K | 11 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 91 | 1 in 2.3M | 91 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 48 | 1 in 71K | 48 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 33 | 1 in 255K | 33 | Nesti | 7 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 496K | — | Nesti | 6 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)Nesti 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 Asturian, contraction of en esti (“on this/in this”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, provisions or lunch brought to school, work, on travels etc.; packed lunch
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, to nest (build a nest)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sla-pro, to carry, to bring
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, to lay eggs
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)- Giovanni Nestib. 1922ITItalian basketball player and basketball coach
- Fulvio Nestib. 1925ITItalian footballer (1925-1996)
- Piergiorgio Silvano Nestib. 1931ITRoman Catholic archbishop (1931–2009)
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Nesti?
- It depends on the language: in Italian /nesti/; in Portuguese /nɛʃti/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Nesti mean?
- Recorded meaning: forma coloquial, redução de Onesti e Ernesti
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Nesti?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Nesti in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nesti. After it come United States, France, Brazil and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nesti?
- In the United States, the national register counted 152 people named Nesti in 2010, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nesti?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nestiThe 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, “Nesti”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.