Sestan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma dialetal set., redução de Sestani; também habitante de Sesta/Sesto
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/sestan/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Sestan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Rwanda than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 4K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 560K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 590Kfew records
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.
- Rwanda (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)forma dialetal set., redução de Sestani; também habitante de Sesta/Sesto
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sestan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RW Rwanda | #621 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Sestan | 1 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,045 | 1 in 4K | 1K | Sestan | 29 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 777K | listed | Sestan | 5 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Sestan | 28 |
| US United States | — | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | listed | Sestan | 50 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 586K | — | Sestan | 35 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 443K | — | Sestan | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 15 | 1 in 560K | 15 | Sestan | 2 |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 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)Sestan 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 Italian, Variante di Sesti
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)- Ernesto Sestanb. 1898ITItalian historian (1898-1986)
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 15 | #45,119 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (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
- How do you pronounce Sestan?
- In Spanish /sestan/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Sestan mean?
- Recorded meaning: forma dialetal set., redução de Sestani; também habitante de Sesta/Sesto
- In which country does Sestan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Sestan in Rwanda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sestan.
- Where is Sestan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sestan is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 4.0 thousand people — even though Rwanda holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sestan?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 1,045 people named Sestan in 2021, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Sestan compared with other names?
- In Rwanda, Sestan is the 621st most common surname of 2,846 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sestanThe 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, “Sestan” — the 621st most common surname in Rwanda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.