Nešta

surname · Latin script

Nešta is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Lithuania. Recorded meaning: from a reduced form of the medieval female personal name Onesta, from onesto ‘man of dignity and integrity’. This name is also well established in Mexico.

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  • LTLithuania

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Lithuania (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
6 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nesta in LT Lithuania.

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)

from a reduced form of the medieval female personal name Onesta, from onesto ‘man of dignity and integrity’. This name is also well established in Mexico.

Sources 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nešta counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Nešta is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LT Lithuania——Nesta6
FR France—560——
US United States—458——
NL Netherlands—111——
UY Uruguay—66——
BR Brazil—64——

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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nešta is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Nesta

  • Croatian given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Nesta, Нешта, Неста

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Venezuela, United States, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Nesta, Ñesta, Nésta

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Nešta under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nešta mean, and where does it come from?
from a reduced form of the medieval female personal name Onesta, from onesto ‘man of dignity and integrity’. This name is also well established in Mexico. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos and 1 other source.
In which country does Nešta have the most bearers?
Nešta is most frequently recorded in Lithuania, where it is most often spelled nesta.

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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, “Nešta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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