Sisto
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma ital. de Sixtus, Sistus
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sisto is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ITItaly
- ARArgentina
- USUnited States
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
forma ital. de Sixtus, Sistus
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sisto is read(measured from records)
Sisto is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English52%
siSwati [Swazi]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
lang., Africa
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sisto in Spanish.
- Italian6.6%
forma ital. de Sixtus, Sistus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Portuguese6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Sisto in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
- USUnited States
- ARArgentina
- ITItaly
- BRBrazil
- UYUruguay
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Sisto is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Italian: variant of Sesto (see SEXTUS ).
as a word
In Latin, to cause to stand; to set; to place
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, inflection of sistais:
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)
- Giovanni Sistob. 1916ITItalian politician
- Rocco Sistob. 1953USAmerican actor
- Francesco Paolo Sistob. 1955ITItalian politician
- Celso Sistob. 1961BRBrazilian writer
- Jeremy Sistob. 1974USAmerican actor
- Pascual Sistob. 1975ESFilmmaker and visual artist
- Marimar Vegab. 1983MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress
- Zuria Vegab. 1989MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress
- Facundo Guichónb. 1991UYnot in their usual nameUruguayan footballer
- Pione Sistob. 1995SDDanish professional footballer
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 42 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,726 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,569 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,496 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 576 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 432 | #19,405 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 307 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 211 | #15,892 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 211 | #15,850 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 97 | #13,068 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 42 | #56,688 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 38 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 27 | #29,501 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Sisto mean, and where does it come from?
- forma ital. de Sixtus, Sistus Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- In which country does Sisto have the most bearers?
- Sisto is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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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, “Sisto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.