Wasti

surname · Latin script

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

/westʲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Wasti is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.1M(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 1.4M
  • BEBelgium1 in 5.9M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

157 people, 2010

Sources
115 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.4M (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Wasti 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.

Where Wasti is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1571 in 2.1M210Wasti115
IN India221 in 60M22Wasti12
ES Spain81 in 6.3M8——
PL Poland51 in 7.7M5——
NO Norway41 in 1.4M4——
BE Belgium21 in 5.9M2—1

157 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Wasti is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Wāsṭī

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan

    Also written Wãsti, Wãstí

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)

Wasti is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In enm, alternative form of wasten

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

  • In got, romanization of 𐍅𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹

    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)

1920194019601980Musarat Wasti, b. 1939Azim Wasti, b. 1940Maria Wasti, b. 1970

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)

FormalDear Wasti,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Wasti
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020210#93,627
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010157#111,988
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000116#134,037
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—22#74,528
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—14#14,128
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—8#134,434
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20265—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5#213,140
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—4#69,914
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—3#23,065
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20082#141,668
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname 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

How do you pronounce Wasti?
A machine transcription gives /westʲi/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Wasti have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 157 people named Wasti, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wasti.
Where is Wasti most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wasti is densest in Norway — about 1 in 1.4 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Wasti?
In the United States, the national register counted 157 people named Wasti in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.

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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, “Wasti”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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