Verastegui
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/beɾasteɡi/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Verastegui is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish, from Basque.
- PEPeru≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- BOBolivia≈1 in 7.1Kfew records
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 16K
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)
- Record sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Verastegui
- Spanish:/beɾasteɡi/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Spanish, from Basque.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Verastegui is found
(measured from records)Verastegui 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 | #530 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Verastegui | 66 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 135 | Verastegui | 104 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Verastegui | 22 |
| BO Bolivia | #550 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Verastegui | 31 |
| US United States | — | 1,215 | 1 in 274K | 1.2K | Verastegui | 170 |
| ES Spain | — | 508 | 1 in 98K | 508 | Verastegui | 60 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)Verastegui 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 English, A surname from Spanish [in turn from Basque].
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)- Prudentzio Maria Berastegib. 1747ESnot in their usual namepolitician
- Eduardo Verásteguib. 1974MXMexican actor
- Luciana Raquel Verasteguib. 2002MXbadminton player
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Verastegui mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish, from Basque. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Verastegui?
- In Spanish /beɾasteɡi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Verastegui?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Verastegui in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled verastegui. After it come Mexico, Venezuela, Bolivia and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Verastegui?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,215 people named Verastegui in 2010, about 1 in 274 thousand residents.
- How common is Verastegui compared with other names?
- In Peru, Verastegui is the 530th most common surname of 173,371 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/verasteguiThe 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, “Verastegui” — the 530th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.