The Bustamante surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 24,536 people carried this name — #1,454 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 12,000 people counted. That is up 34% from 18,363 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Bustamante surname
Habitational surname borrowed from Spanish Bustamante. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Bustamante» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 46,021 people named Bustamante 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
107 people named Bustamante live in Switzerland.
They live in 11 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where 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 68 people named Bustamante.
28 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 16 départements, most often Gironde.
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
42 people named Bustamante 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).
In print
Bustamante in American newspapers,
1942–1963.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 6,456 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Bustamante,
with a public archive behind them.
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Carlos María de Bustamante 1774–1848 · lawyer -
Anastasio Bustamante 1780–1853 · physician -
Juan Bustamante Dueñas 1808–1868 · writer -
Pedro José Bustamante y Alvizuri 1815–1873 · lawyer -
Pedro Bustamante 1824–1891 · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 207 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bustamante.
- Bussinger 334 · U.S. census
- Bussmann 293 · U.S. census
- Busso 158 · U.S. census
- Busson 181 · U.S. census
- Bussone 261 · U.S. census
- Bussy 140 · U.S. census
- Bustin 509 · U.S. census
- Buston 115 · U.S. census
- Bustos 17,040 · U.S. census
- Busuttil 196 · U.S. census
- But 261 · U.S. census
- Butaud 146 · U.S. census
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