Sixto
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Sixtus
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/siksto/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sixto is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 1.9K
- PEPeru≈1 in 2.2K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name, equivalent to English Sixtus
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sixto 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #454 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Sixto | 51 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | listed | Sixto | 38 |
| AR Argentina | #551 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 576 | Sixto | 55 |
| EC Ecuador | #376 | 9,071 | 1 in 1.9K | 9.1K | Sixto | 40 |
| VE Venezuela | #656 | 7,264 | 1 in 3.9K | 7.3K | Sixto | 31 |
| PY Paraguay | #296 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Sixto | 30 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #184 | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 9 | Sixto | 21 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the ph-gutenberg1905-names register; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt). 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)
Sixto 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 Spanish, Del latín Sextus: ‘sexto’, nombre dado al sexto nacido; de sex ‘seis’.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
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)
- Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngorab. 1645MXnot in their usual nameMexican humanist and writer (1645-1700)
- Ernesto Lecuonab. 1896ESnot in their usual nameCuban composer (1896-1963)
- Sixto Pondal Ríosb. 1907ARArgentine writer (1907–1968)
- Sixto Durán Ballénb. 1921ECPresident of Ecuador (1992–1996)
- Sixto Rodriguezb. 1942USAmerican musician (1942–2023)
- Sixto Lezcanob. 1953USAmerican baseball player
- Sixto Soriab. 1954CUboxer
- Sixto Vizueteb. 1961ECEcuadorian footballer and manager
- Sixto Peraltab. 1979ARArgentine footballer
- Sixto Santa Cruzb. 1986PYParaguayan 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 9.1K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 9.1K | #207 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 7.3K | #195 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1978 | 264 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1966 | 219 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 14 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 14 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 13 | #1,886 |
| PR Puerto Rico | SSA Baby Names — Puerto Rico (state file PR.txt) | 2003 | 9 | #320 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 6 | — |
| PH Philippines | Philippine given names (Schneider 1905, Project Gutenberg) | — | — | — |
| PH Philippines | Tagalog given names (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Sixto mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Sixtus Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sixto?
- A machine transcription gives /siksto/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Sixto a male or female name?
- Sixto is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Sixto have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Sixto in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sixto.
- How common is the name Sixto?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 9,071 people named Sixto in 2024, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Sixto compared with other names?
- In Peru, Sixto is the 454th most common given name of 254,284 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sixto?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sixtoThe 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, “Sixto” — the 454th most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.