Çatana

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Çatana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 127K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 217K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 350K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

394 people

Sources
8 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 127K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Catalan

subst. ard. <magh.. kotona ostas". 1. Catana, R. (17 B III 178) ; - jupars (16 B I 80) ; Catand (Ard) ; Catana (Mot ; Sd X) ; C6lan (Tel 58). 2. Ceitelnipl (17 B 282). 3. Catanu (AO VI 58) ; Catanufa, Ghita (erou de balada). 4. Catanloiu (Sd XVI 99) -escu. 5. Prob. Cotana b. (16 B 1.I 98).

Sources 2

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Çatana counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Çatana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain3941 in 127K394——
US United States3301 in 1M360—2
BR Brazil1901 in 1.1M190——
TR Türkiye≈140 est.≈1 in 603K—Çatana8
AR Argentina561 in 812K56——
DK Denmark271 in 217K27——
CH Switzerland241 in 350K24——
SE Sweden161 in 638K16—1

394 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Çatana is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Catana, Catană, Cataña, Câtana

  • Croatian surname17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Katana, Catana, Катана, Cătană, Catană

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Çatana under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Çatana have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 394 people named Çatana, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Çatana most common?
Çatana is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 127 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Çatana?
In Spain, the national register counted 394 people named Çatana, about 1 in 127 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Çatana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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