Oreste
given name · Latin script
Meaning: dal greco Orestes, 'abitante dei monti'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/oɾest̪e/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Oreste is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 437K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 35K
- BRBrazil1 in 167K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
1,265 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
dal greco Orestes, 'abitante dei monti'.
Sources 1
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Oreste 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.
1,265 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names. 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)
Oreste 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.
In Italian, Significato: .abitatore dei monti n. S. Oreste. mar- tire. 305; 13 dicerobre. C ' O ~ I L .Orestano.
as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche
In Italian, forma italiana de Orestes
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Montanaro
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Latin, ablative of Orestēs
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)
- Orestes of Macedonb. 410not in their usual nameking of Macedonia from 400/399 to 398/397 BC
- Oreste Baratierib. 1841ITItalian general (1841-1901)
- Oreste Zamorb. 1861HTPresident of Haiti (1861-1915)
- Oreste Pulitib. 1891ITfencer (1891–1958)
- Oreste Biancolib. 1897ITItalian screenwriter (1897-1971)
- Oreste Grossib. 1912ITItalian rower (1912–2008)
- Oreste Lionellob. 1927ITItalian actor and voice actor (1927-2009)
- Oreste Corbattab. 1936ARArgentine footballer (1936-1991)
- Orestes Matacenab. 1941CUnot in their usual nameCuban film actor, writer, producer, and director
- Orestes Kindelánb. 1964CUnot in their usual namebaseball 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)
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 53 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.9K | #6,141 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 1.9K | #2,463 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #7,073 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 756 | #15,188 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 104 | #15,339 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 100 | #7,405 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 98 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 98 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 24 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 24 | #54,025 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 15 | #7,974 |
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
- How do you pronounce Oreste?
- A machine transcription gives /oɾest̪e/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Oreste a male or female name?
- Oreste 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.
- What does the name Oreste mean?
- Recorded meaning: dal greco Orestes, 'abitante dei monti'.
- In which country does Oreste have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Oreste, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Oreste most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Oreste is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Oreste?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,265 people named Oreste in 2022, about 1 in 167 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/oresteThe 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, “Oreste”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.