Nestor

At the 2020 census, 5,311 Americans bore the surname Nestor — 6,181st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 56,300.

By the numbers

People: 5,311
Rank: 6,181st
How common: 1 in 56,300
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

From Ancient Greek Νέστωρ, possibly from νέομαι (“to return safely”), νόστος (“homecoming”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Nestor described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 77.5%
Hispanic or Latino 11.0%
Black, not Hispanic 8.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Nestor

Daniel Nestor (born 1972)Canadian tennis player
Eiki Nestor (born 1953)Estonian politician

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

Surnames like Nestor

Also a first name

Nestor has been given to 10,430 American babies as a first name since 1885, peaking in 1991. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.