Pesti
surname · Latin script
Meaning: of, from or relating to the pre-1873 city of Pest
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pɛsti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pesti is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 214K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 3.2M
- SESweden1 in 5.1M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 214K (inferred from the name graph)
104 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
of, from or relating to the pre-1873 city of Pest
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pesti 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.
104 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Pesti is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, $EL, Moise, coautor al Palici din Orastie, < subst. peste.
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In Latin, dative singular of pestis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, inflection of pestare:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, job, task
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)
- Arnold Pestib. 1914EEEstonian military personnel and engineer (1914-1990)
- Madis Pestib. 1917EEEstonian historian and civil servant (1917-1969)
- Barnabás Pestib. 1920HUHungarian chemical engineer, resistance fighter (1920–1944)
- György Pestib. 1924HUassociation football player (1924-2011)
- Ferenc Pestib. 1944HUHungarian politician
- Olavi Pestib. 1950EEEstonian historian (born 1950)
- Imre Pestib. 1952HUHungarian politician (born: 1952)
- Arvo Pestib. 1956EEEstonian politician (1956-2010)
- Brigitta Pestib. 1981HUHungarian literary scholar, university teacher, literary historian and pedagogue
- Máté PestiHUHungarian diplomat
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 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 104 | #156,044 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 101 | #149,328 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 26 | #39,953 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #281,773 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #71,869 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #164,624 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Pesti mean, and where does it come from?
- of, from or relating to the pre-1873 city of Pest Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pesti?
- A machine transcription gives /pɛsti/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pesti have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 104 people named Pesti, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pesti.
- Where is Pesti most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pesti is densest in Finland — about 1 in 214 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pesti?
- In the United States, the national register counted 104 people named Pesti in 2010, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pestiThe 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, “Pesti”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.