Pastora

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Pastora is a given name, most frequently recorded in Venezuela. In Nicaragua it is the 56th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: female equivalent of pastor (“shepherdess”).

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua1 in 1.2K◐
  • VEVenezuela1 in 2K
  • HNHonduras1 in 4.2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈8.1K ●

across 6 countries

Sources
93 ●

155K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 5.7K ◐

Ecuador

Meaning & origin●

female equivalent of pastor (“shepherdess”)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Pastora is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#25696,48271K rec.—7.1KPastora33
AR Argentina#97429,98323K rec.—5Pastora31
NI Nicaragua#5612,54917K rec.——Pastora28
PE Peru—11,7409.7K rec.——Pastora29
MX Mexico—6,3666.2K rec.—26Pastora54
PH Philippines—4,4564.5K rec.——Pastora22
HN Honduras#2184,3324.4K rec.——Pastora11
ES Spain—3,3813.6K rec.1 in 15K3.5KPastora83
EC Ecuador#9862,952△42 rec.1 in 5.7K3KPastora24
US United States—8654.9K rec.1 in 385K865Pastora93
BR Brazil—763853 rec.1 in 277K1KPastora50
CR Costa Rica—166973 rec.1 in 31K166—21

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Languages●

  • Spanish195K78%
  • English23K9%
  • Portuguese16K7%
  • Catalan3.4K1%
  • 4601%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish195,06478%
English22,8429%
Portuguese16,4407%
Catalan3,3821%
4601%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other recorded senses●

Pastora 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.

  • Significado: Virtuosa

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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.

Over time●

02550751001920194019601980200097 · 1966

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Pastora in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1901–2019
Yearrecords
19012
19022
19033
19048
19058
190613
19077
19086
190913
191011
191111
191210
191312
191411
191512
19169
191711
191815
191915
192023
192128
192225
192331
192430
192528
192622
192718
192828
192924
193032
193134
193224
193333
193435
193525
193635
193733
193835
193952
194030
194129
194227
194328
194437
194542
194637
194744
194846
194948
195044
195142
195244
195355
195443
195550
195650
195747
195847
195947
196043
196138
196239
196356
196456
196554
196697
196743
196844
196944
197049
197145
197241
197341
197435
197528
197639
197752
197837
197922
198054
198125
198230
198333
198427
198536
198627
198720
198822
198910
19906
19916
19928
19939
199413
199524
19965
19974
19988
199912
20004
20013
20022
20033
20045
20052
20064
20079
20087
20094
20103
20114
20124
20141
20152
20173
20181
20191

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 117 years between 1901–2019. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Pastora Imperio, b. 1880La Niña de los Peines, b. 1890Pastora Peña, b. 1920Pastora San Juan Cafferty, b. 1940Elisabet von Zeipel, b. 1943Pastora Medina, b. 1952Pastora Vega, b. 1960Pastora Galván, b. 1980Pastora Filigrana García, b. 1981

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 31 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Pastora
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—7.1K#280
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—3.5K#579
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—3.4K#1,195
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—3K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20243K#485
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.9K#4,998
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—1K#4,556
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—993#9,264
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020865#13,739
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022763—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—761#9,976
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)1990727—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 409 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Pastora?
We estimate roughly 8.1 thousand people bear Pastora (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Pastora have the most bearers?
Pastora is most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is most often spelled pastora.
How common is Pastora compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Pastora is the 256th most common given name of 213,120 given names recorded there.
Is Pastora a male or female name?
Pastora is a female 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 Pastora mean?
Recorded meaning: female equivalent of pastor (“shepherdess”)
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Pastora” — the 256th most common given name in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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