The Bastos surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 827 people carried this name — #28,777 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 357,100 people counted. That is up 24% from 668 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 789 people named Bastos live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
445 people named Bastos live in Switzerland.
They live in 16 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 103 people named Bastos.
49 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 21 départements, most often Hauts-de-Seine.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
29 people named Bastos is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Bastos,
with a public archive behind them.
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José Joaquim Rodrigues de Bastos 1777–1862 · judge -
Luís Paulo de Araújo Bastos 1797– · politician -
André Bastos de Oliveira 1808–1862 · politician -
Manuel Correia de Bastos Pina 1830–1913 · Catholic priest -
António Vítor de Figueiredo Bastos 1832–1894 · sculptor
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 137 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bastos.
- Bastiani 155 · U.S. census
- Bastida 1,401 · U.S. census
- Bastien 3,136 · U.S. census
- Bastin 1,435 · U.S. census
- Bastion 361 · U.S. census
- Baston 908 · U.S. census
- Batac 465 · U.S. census
- Bataille 463 · U.S. census
- Batal 147 · U.S. census
- Batalla 943 · U.S. census
- Batel 221 · U.S. census
- Bateman 19,001 · U.S. census
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