Pesta
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Pesta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 9.5K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 12K
- PLPoland1 in 32K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Pesta is found
(measured from records)Pesta 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.
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; MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)Pesta is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tft, alternative form of festa (“party, celebration”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, party, a social gathering, a gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, third-person singular past historic of pester
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite feminine singular of pest
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlm, festive gathering, entertainment
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Estonian, Da-infinitive of pesema.
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)- Otto Pestab. 1885ATAustrian zoologist (1885-1974)
- László Pestab. 1902HUHungarian physician, politician (1902-1998)
- Maciej Pestab. 1983PLPolish actor (1983-2026)
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pesta?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Pesta in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pesta. After it come Poland, Czechia, United States and Slovakia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Pesta most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pesta is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 9.5 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pesta?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,188 people named Pesta in 2026, about 1 in 32 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pesta?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pestaThe 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, “Pesta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.