Nista
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/nista/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Nista is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 320K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 598K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
≈620 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malta, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Nista
- Spanish:/nista/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/niʃtɐ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Nista is found
(measured from records)Nista 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 | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 95K | listed | Nista | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 354 | 1 in 598K | 354 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 183 | 1 in 1.8M | 210 | Nista | 113 |
| IN India | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 9.9M | 1 | Nista | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 142 | 1 in 320K | 142 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 290K | — | Nista | 1 |
| MT Malta | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Nista | 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)Nista is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Slovenian, negative second/third-person dual present of bíti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of niste
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, contemptible
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)- Alessandro Nistab. 1965ITItalian footballer
- Lorenzo Nistab. 1993ITItalian fencer
- Leila NistaITItalian archaeologist
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Nista?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /nista/; in Portuguese /niʃtɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Nista?
- Mondonomo estimates about 621 people named Nista in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nista. After it come Brazil, United States, India and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nista?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 354 people named Nista, about 1 in 598 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nista?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nistaThe 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, “Nista”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.