Mestre
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A borough of Venice, Veneto, Italy, located on the mainland (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/mest̪ɾe/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Mestre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country: 6,297 people, counted by INE. Mestre is also written Местре in Cyrillic.
- ESSpain1 in 7.9K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 12K
- FRFrance≈1 in 15K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)
6,297 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Mestre in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Mestre
- Spanish:/mest̪ɾe/(machine-generated) model-generated
- French:/mɛstʁ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Portuguese:/mɛstɾi/(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)Mallorca, Chaves, Mestre, London; mestre; master; bef. 1400
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mestre is read
(measured from records)Mestre 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.
- Spanish48%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mestre in Spanish.
- French24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mestre in French.
- English13%
A borough of Venice, Veneto, Italy, located on the mainland.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese9.6%
master, teacher
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of 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 the surname Mestre is found
(measured from records)Mestre 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #602 | 6,297 | 1 in 7.9K | 6.3K | Mestre | 148 |
| FR France | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 449 | — | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,094 | 1 in 101K | 2.1K | Mestre | 83 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | 2 | Mestre | 55 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,446 | 1 in 31K | 1.4K | Mestre | 68 |
| CU Cuba | #567 | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Mestre | 20 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 275 | 1 in 12K | 275 | Mestre | 15 |
6,297 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Mestre is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Mallorca, Chaves, Mestre, London; mestre; master; bef. 1400
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
from mestre ‘master (craftsman)’, denoting the head of a craft or trade guild. Compare French Maitre.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
status name for a rabbi, translation of Aramaic Rabbi ‘teacher’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name from Mestre, now one of the most densely populated areas ofVenice.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourgb. 1956CUnot in their usual namegrand duchess consort of Luxembourg (born 1956)
- Audrey Mestreb. 1974FRFrench freediver (1974–2002)
- Dayaris Mestre Álvarezb. 1986CUCuban judoka
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Mestre come from?
- Mallorca, Chaves, Mestre, London; mestre; master; bef. 1400 Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- What are other forms of the name Mestre?
- In the etymology graph, Maître is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Mestre?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /mest̪ɾe/; in French /mɛstʁ/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /mɛstɾi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Mestre mean?
- In English, A borough of Venice, Veneto, Italy, located on the mainland.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mestre?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 6.3 thousand people named Mestre, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mestre. After it come France, Brazil, Colombia and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Mestre most common?
- Mestre is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mestre?
- In Spain, the national register counted 6,297 people named Mestre, about 1 in 7.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Mestre compared with other names?
- In Spain, Mestre is the 602nd most common surname of 395,154 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/mestreThe 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, “Mestre” — ranked 861st in Spain (INE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.