Pestis
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pestis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belarus than in any other country.
- BYBelarus≈1 in 1.1Mas Пестис(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 44Mas Пестис
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pestis itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Belarus (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈9 named Пестис, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belarus, est., as Пестис
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Пестис in RU Russia, BY Belarus.
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(measured from records)
samo u poslovici; pejorativno, od lat. pestis »kuga«
Sources 2
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pestis 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.
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)
Pestis is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, disease, plague, pestilence, infection
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Plague.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, samo u poslovici; pejorativno, od lat. pestis »kuga«
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
In Breton, néréides
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
In Latvian, Slinks cilvēks, guļava
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Klijāns
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Pestis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9 people named Пестис in Belarus, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Pestis?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9 people in Belarus have Пестис as their first surname, about 1 in 1.1 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Pestis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pestisThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Pestis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.