Sesto

loc · Latin script

Meaning: From Latin. See }Sextus in main dictionary

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

Sesto is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Italy.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly
  • PTPortugal
  • BRBrazil

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
55 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Sesto: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Sesto
  1. Middle EnglishLatyn(inferred from the name graph)via Latin
  2. Old Frenchlatin(inferred from the name graph)via Latin
  3. Latinlatīnus(inferred from the name graph)via Latin

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

From Latin. See }Sextus in main dictionary.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sesto counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Sesto is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy—1Sesto49
BR Brazil—104Sesto27
PT Portugal——Sesto2
AR Argentina—397—42
US United States—346—55
ES Spain—224—43
HR Croatia—183——

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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Sesto is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Šesto

  • Croatian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Šesto, Шесто

  • French name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Šesto

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Šesto

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sëṡẗö

37 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)

Sesto is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, sixth

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, Nome numerale latino, dal lat. sextus "sesto".

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • In Italian, Nome numerale. iion frequente. S. Sesto, martire. 31 dicembre. Cogn. Sesti. Sestelli, Sestini.

    as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche

  • In Italian, forma ital. de Sextus; geralmente habitante de lugares chamados Sesto

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In English, Short for Sesto San Giovanni

    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)

12001400160018002000Marco Sesto, b. 1370Lorenzo Sesto, b. 1380Xulio Sesto, b. 1879Sesto Rocchi, b. 1909Sesto Pals, b. 1913Sesto Bruscantini, b. 1919Sesto Prete, b. 1919Francisco de Asís Sesto Novas, b. 1943Sesto Quatrini, b. 1984

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 23 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Sesto
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—397—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000346#55,481
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020300#70,358
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010285#68,949
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—224#15,198
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—224#15,174
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—104#61,505
IT Italy意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name 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

What does the name Sesto mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin. See }Sextus in main dictionary. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
In which country does Sesto have the most bearers?
Sesto is most frequently recorded in Italy, where it is most often spelled sesto.

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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, “Sesto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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