Pastor

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: shepherd

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/pastoɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pastor is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country, where it is the 85th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 2.2K
  • PEPeru≈1 in 2.3K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

46,323 people

Sources
289 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from AFr/OFr pastour/pastor/pastur ‘herdsman, shepherd’; first attested Gerardus pastor 1140–53 Holme Nf

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Pastor is read(measured from records)

Pastor is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish62%

    shepherd

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English19%

    from AFr/OFr pastour/pastor/pastur ‘herdsman, shepherd’; first attested Gerardus pastor 1140–53 Holme Nf

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

    Someone who tends to a flock of animals: synonym of shepherd.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Catalan8.0%

    shepherd, herder

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French6.3%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Pastor in French.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pastor 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.

Where Pastor is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#8546,3231 in 1.1K46KPastor213
PH Philippines#996≈17,000 est.≈1 in 6.4K—Pastor62
PE Peru#346≈14,000 est.≈1 in 2.3K—Pastor88
NG Nigeria—≈8,900 est.≈1 in 24K—Pastor24
BR Brazil#972≈8,300 est.≈1 in 25K228Pastor100
GT Guatemala#309≈3,200 est.≈1 in 5.4K—Pastor24
UY Uruguay#4051,5231 in 2.2K1.5KPastor33

46,323 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Pastor is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Pástor, Pastoer, Pastör, Pàstòr, Pästör

  • French surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Pástor, Pàstôr, Pàstor, Pästòr, Pastór

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Pástor, Pastór

  • Russian surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Spain

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Пастор, Pástor, Пастар, Pasztor, Pásztor

  • Hindi surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Spain, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Pästõr, Pástor

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, Spain, Peru

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Pástor

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Pástor

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Italy, United States, Philippines

    Also written Pástor

64 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Pastor is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, 'priest, pastor'; also Latinized from Hirte/Schäfer

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In Italian, forma dialetal setentrional, redução de Pastore

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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)

18501900195020002050Ludwig von Pastor, b. 1854Julián Pastor, b. 1943Ana Pastor Julián, b. 1957Rosana Pastor, b. 1960David Pastor, b. 1978Jordi Ballart i Pastor, b. 1980Àlex Pastor, b. 1981Salomón Libman, b. 1984Alfonso Pastor, b. 2000Nacho Pastor, b. 2003

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)

FormalDear Colleague,Dear Pastor, (English)
InformalHello,Dear Pastor, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 65 sources across 36 countries.

Official registers attesting Pastor
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—46K#97
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—46K#97
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—1.5K—

Reference works 7

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

Where does the name Pastor come from?
from AFr/OFr pastour/pastor/pastur ‘herdsman, shepherd’; first attested Gerardus pastor 1140–53 Holme Nf Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
What are other forms of the name Pastor?
In the etymology graph, Pastour is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Pastor?
A machine transcription gives /pastoɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Pastor mean?
In Spanish, shepherd
In which country does Pastor have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 46 thousand people named Pastor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pastor.
Where is Pastor most common?
Pastor is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Pastor?
In Spain, the national register counted 46,323 people named Pastor, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
How common is Pastor compared with other names?
In Spain, Pastor is the 85th most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Pastor” — the 85th most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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