Sastra

surname · Latin script

Meaning: literary language

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

Sastra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 494K
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 530K

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.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

≈13,000 people, est.

Sources
119 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)

Indonesia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

literary language

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sastra 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 Sastra is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia≈13,000 est.≈1 in 20KlistedSastra119
MY Malaysia≈62 est.≈1 in 530K—Sastra12
DZ Algeria≈60 est.≈1 in 722K—Sastra1
US United States≈43 est.≈1 in 7.8M—Sastra22
NL Netherlands351 in 494K35—3
SG Singapore≈9 est.≈1 in 671K—Sastra4

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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)

Sastra is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai given name25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, United States, Philippines, India

    Also written ศาสตรา, Sattra, ศาตรา, Satta, ศัสตรา

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Śāstra

27 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)

Sastra 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 Basque, ( V-m ap. A ). Maleza, matorral.

    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 5 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Sastra
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200735#38,193

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Sastra mean, and where does it come from?
literary language Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Sastra have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Sastra in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sastra.
How common is the name Sastra?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 35 people named Sastra in 2007, about 1 in 494 thousand residents.

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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, “Sastra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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