Sastri
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sastri is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 619Kas Shastri(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 902Kas Shastri
- GYGuyana1 in 83K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sastri 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- 1 in 83K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,900 named Sastry, est.
recorded for this name
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:
Locally spelled Sastry in IN India, US United States, AO Angola and 1 more and Shastry in FI Finland.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sastri 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 157K | — | Sastry | 3 |
| IN India | 1,470as Shastri | 1 in 902K | 1.5K | Sastry | 121 |
| AO Angola | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Sastry | 1 |
| US United States | 537as Shastri | 1 in 619K | 797 | Sastry | 173 |
| ZM Zambia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 132K | 1 | — | 3 |
| FI Finland | 30as Shastri | 1 in 186K | 30 | Shastry | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 20 | 1 in 11M | 20 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 9 | 1 in 83K | 16 | — | 1 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. 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)
Sastri 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 xsb, tailor
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)
- Bapudeva Sastrib. 1821INIndian scholar in Sanskrit and mathematics and translator
- C. V. Kumaraswami Sastrib. 1870INIndian lawyer
- Vedula S. Sastrib. 19351935-
- Lina Sastrib. 1950ITItalian actress and singer
- V.V. Sastribotanist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 243 | #12,326 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 129 | #24,020 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 117 | #144,270 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 116 | #143,149 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20 | #194,891 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 9 | #616 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #18,678 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #3,998 |
| 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
- In which country does Sastri have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.9 thousand people named Sastry in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Sastri most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sastri is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 83 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sastri?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 20 people named Sastri, about 1 in 11 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sastri?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sastriThe 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, “Sastri”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.