Nesto
given name · Latin script
Meaning: forma coloquial, redução de Onesto e Ernesto
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nesto/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nesto is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 468K
- UYUruguay≈1 in 607K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma coloquial, redução de Onesto e Ernesto
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nesto 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Nesto | 5 |
| US United States | 158 | 1 in 2.1M | 149 | Nesto | 63 |
| BR Brazil | 145 | 1 in 1.5M | 185 | Nesto | 23 |
| PH Philippines | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Nesto | 6 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 468K | — | Nesto | 8 |
| PT Portugal | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 676K | — | Nesto | 4 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 959K | — | Nesto | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 607K | 1 | Nesto | 3 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012). 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)
Nesto is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In izh, not to mention, let alone
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 138 | #129,045 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 118 | #132,259 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 117 | #142,108 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 108 | #59,814 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Nesto?
- A machine transcription gives /nesto/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Nesto mean?
- Recorded meaning: forma coloquial, redução de Onesto e Ernesto
- Is Nesto a male or female name?
- Nesto is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Nesto have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Nesto in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nesto.
- How common is the name Nesto?
- In the United States, the national register counted 158 people named Nesto in 2020, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nesto?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nestoThe 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, “Nesto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.