Cătălin
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/kə.təˈlin/(recorded in a dictionary) Romanian · from Wiktionary
Cătălin is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 32nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Perhaps a masculine equivalent the feminine Cătălina, a Romanian equivalent to Catherine, ultimately of Ancient Greek origin (Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterínē)). cf. also Ecaterina.
- RORomania≈1 in 250(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 11K
- ISIceland1 in 15K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 254 (inferred from the name graph)
≈84,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Catalin in RO Romania, IT Italy, ES Spain and 2 more.
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)Perhaps a masculine equivalent the feminine Cătălina, a Romanian equivalent to Catherine, ultimately of Ancient Greek origin (Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterínē)). cf. also Ecaterina.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cătălin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #32 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 254 | — | Catalin | 151 |
| MD Moldova | #316 | 5,985 | 1 in 562 | 6K | Cătălin | 37 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 1 | Catalin | 86 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 62K | 3 | Catalin | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,086 | 1 in 46K | 1.1K | Catalin | 83 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Catalin | 35 |
| IS Iceland | — | 23 | 1 in 15K | 23 | — | — |
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: e-services.md — living population register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Cătălin Bursacib. 1957RORomanian writer
- Cătălin Botezatub. 1966RORomanian model
- Catalin Dorian Florescub. 1967ROSwiss writer and psychologist (born 1967)
- Cătălin Predoiub. 1968RORomanian politician
- Cătălin Mitulescub. 1972RORomanian filmmaker (born 1972)
- Cătălin Țăranub. 1973RORomanian Go player
- Cătălin Hîldanb. 1976RORomanian footballer (1976-2000)
- Cătălin Răcănelb. 1976DERomanian association football player
- Cătălin Cristuțiub. 1979ROfilm editor (born 1979)
- Cătălin Carpb. 1993MDfootball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 6K | #154 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cătălin mean, and where does it come from?
- Perhaps a masculine equivalent the feminine Cătălina, a Romanian equivalent to Catherine, ultimately of Ancient Greek origin (Αἰκατερίνη (Aikaterínē)). cf. also Ecaterina. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Cătălin?
- In Romanian /kə.təˈlin/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Cătălin a male or female name?
- Cătălin is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026).
- In which country does Cătălin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 84 thousand people named Cătălin in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled catalin.
- How common is the name Cătălin?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 5,985 people named Cătălin, about 1 in 562 residents.
- How common is Cătălin compared with other names?
- In Romania, Cătălin is the 32nd most common given name of 34,167 given names 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%C4%83t%C4%83linThe 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, “Cătălin” — the 32nd most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.