Pasto
loc · Latin script
Meaning: pasture
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pasto is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 53K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 24K
- ESSpain1 in 127K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈930 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pastò in IT Italy.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
pasture
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pasto 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.
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)
Pasto 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 English, dry. Colombia
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Portuguese, animal feed, pasture, food
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of pāstus (“fed, nourished; having eaten, consumed; grazed, pastured; satisfied, gratified”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, to feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, pasture (land on which cattle can be kept for feeding)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 539 | #15,914 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 395 | #9,652 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 395 | #9,643 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 236 | #6,529 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 111 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Pasto mean, and where does it come from?
- pasture Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pasto have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 934 people named Pasto in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pasto.
- Where is Pasto most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pasto is densest in Finland — about 1 in 24 thousand people — even though Colombia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pasto?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 539 people named Pasto, about 1 in 393 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pastoThe 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, “Pasto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.