Pisto
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pisto is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: sting, bite.
- FIFinland1 in 17K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 537K
- ARArgentina1 in 679K
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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
336 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
sting, bite
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pisto 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.
336 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Pisto 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 Spanish, money
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nap, pesto (sauce)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, to pound
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, Pisto. Ziur artuko dot nik / astelen-goizetan / nai neguan, nai udan / pistoa seiretan. Azc PB 235. v. tbn. Cocinan 39.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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 9 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 336 | #4,861 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 167 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 100 | #150,436 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 67 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 33 | #139,729 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19 | #26,324 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pisto mean, and where does it come from?
- sting, bite Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pisto have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 336 people named Pisto, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pisto.
- Where is Pisto most common?
- Pisto is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 17 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pisto?
- In Finland, the national register counted 336 people named Pisto, about 1 in 17 thousand 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/pistoThe 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, “Pisto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.