Pestano
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pɛstɑnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pestano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 51K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 145K
- USUnited States1 in 981K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈750 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pestano 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Pestano | 50 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Pestano | 22 |
| ES Spain | — | 531 | 1 in 94K | 531 | Pestano | 50 |
| US United States | — | 339 | 1 in 981K | 469 | Pestano | 136 |
| BR Brazil | — | 321 | 1 in 660K | 321 | Pestano | 28 |
| GY Guyana | #428 | 213 | 1 in 3.5K | 213 | Pestano | 3 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Pestano | 2 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 5 | 1 in 11K | 5 | — | 2 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
Pestano 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 Italian, third-person plural present indicative of pestare
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)
- Ariel Pestanob. 1974CUbaseball player
- Mario Pestanob. 1978ESathletics competitor
- Vinnie Pestanob. 1985USAmerican baseball player
- José Pestanoresearcher
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)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 531 | #7,613 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 531 | #7,608 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 469 | #48,635 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 339 | #59,603 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 321 | #24,952 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 272 | #67,725 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 213 | #413 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 5 | #177 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Pestano?
- A machine transcription gives /pɛstɑnoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pestano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 752 people named Pestano in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pestano.
- Where is Pestano most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pestano is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 3.5 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pestano?
- In Spain, the national register counted 531 people named Pestano, about 1 in 94 thousand residents.
- How common is Pestano compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Pestano is the 428th most common surname of 15,834 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pestano?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pestanoThe 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, “Pestano” — the 428th most common surname in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.