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Pastor

The boy's name Pastor has been in the national records since 1929, with 146 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2008. About 130 Pastors are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 32.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Pastor

By the numbers

Total US births
146
Estimated living today
130
Median age today
32
Peak year
1981
Best rank
4,509th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1929

How old the living Pastors are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 146 babies given the name since 1929, about 130 are alive — 86 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1993 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Pastors

People named Pastor with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Pastor is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1981

The most popular boys’ names the year Pastor peaked:

All the names of 1981

Where Pastor lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 308 men called Pastor were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Coruña, A Pastor 40 0.073 751
Lugo Pastor 11 0.070 768
Pontevedra Pastor 30 0.066 760
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Pastor 18 0.034 2,227
Sevilla Pastor 24 0.025 1,244
Huelva Pastor 6 0.022 1,715

Listed in 12 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 40 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Pastor against another name

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.