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Pastor

in the US

There are 4,673 people with the last name "Pastor" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Pastor 5,670
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  1. is 5,666th most common Wiener
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  3. is 5,668th most common Haupt
  4. is 5,669th most common Degroot
  5. is 5,670th most common Pastor
  6. is 5,671st most common Schauer
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Most Common First Names for Pastor

Robert, John, Maria, David, Michael, Mary, Jose, Richard, James, Joseph

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Meaning & History

1. English, Portuguese, Galician, Spanish, Catalan, and French: occupational name for a shepherd, Anglo-Norman French pastre (oblique case pastour), Portuguese, Galician, Spanish, Catalan, pastor ‘shepherd’, from Latin pastor, an agent derivative of pascere ‘to graze’. The religious sense of a spiritual leader was rare in the Middle Ages, and insofar as it occurs at all it seems always to be a conscious metaphor; it is unlikely, therefore, that this sense lies behind any examples of the surname.

2. German and Dutch: humanistic name, a Latinized form of various vernacular names meaning ‘shepherd’, for example Hirt or Schäfer (see Schafer).

3. Americanized spelling of Hungarian Pásztor, an occupational name from pásztor ‘shepherd’.

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Recent Searches for "Pastor" in the US

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Robert Pastor (8 searches)
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