Cátala
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person singular imperative of catar combined with la
Cátala is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 6.1K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 29K
- ARArgentina1 in 40K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
8,257 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Catala in US United States, PR Puerto Rico, BE Belgium, Catalá in AR Argentina, UY Uruguay, BO Bolivia and Català in ES Spain.
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)second-person singular imperative of catar combined with la
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cátala 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 8,257 | 1 in 6.1K | 8.3K | Català | 64 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,142 | 1 in 40K | 1.1K | Catalá | 11 |
| US United States | — | 869 | 1 in 383K | 883 | Catala | 177 |
| BR Brazil | — | 148 | 1 in 1.4M | 148 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 118 | 1 in 29K | 118 | Catalá | 9 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 356K | — | Catalá | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 32 | 1 in 366K | 32 | Catala | 4 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #368 | — | — | — | Catala | 15 |
8,257 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling catala. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cátala mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular imperative of catar combined with la Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Cátala have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 8.3 thousand people named Cátala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled català.
- Where is Cátala most common?
- Cátala is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cátala?
- In Spain, the national register counted 8,257 people named Cátala, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Cátala compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Cátala is the 368th most common surname of 8,205 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/c%C3%A1talaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Cátala” — the 368th most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.