Yuste (surname)

For other uses, see Monastery of Yuste.

Yuste or Iuste is a Spanish surname of Basque origin.

There are about 16,645 people registered with the surname Yuste in Spain, about 8,276 who have it as their first surname, 8,369 who have it as their second, and 189 who have it in both positions. The provinces with the most people named Yuste are Madrid (22.47%), Valencia (12.01%), Barcelona (10.78%), Murcia (5.92%), Málaga (4.57%), Cádiz (3.84%) and Ávila (3.56%).

References to Yuste as a place refer to the village now called Cuacos de Yuste in Extremadura, Spain, where the Monastery of Yuste, where Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor retired and died, is situated. The village recently took the byname Yuste because of the monastery’s fame. The monastery, in turn, would have taken its name from a nearby stream called Vercelejo, which was also called Yuste. It is unknown whether the stream’s name is related to the surname.

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