Català
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Català 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 and Catalá in AR Argentina, UY Uruguay, BO Bolivia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Català 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Català is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, Catalan (pertaining to Catalonia, the Catalan people, or the Catalan language)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Melcior de Palaub. 1842ESnot in their usual nameSpanish engineer and writer (1842-1910)
- Anton Català i Gomisb. 1911ESSpanish painter (1911-1970)
- Neus Català Pallejàb. 1915ESSpanish politician (1915-2019)
- Francesc Català Rocab. 1922ESSpanish photographer (1922–1998)
- Maria Assumpció Català i Pochb. 1925ESCatalan mathematician and astronomer (1925-2009)
- Joaquim Budesca Catalàb. 1930ESSpanish painter (born 1930)
- Joaquim Jordàb. 1935ESnot in their usual nameSpanish film director and screenwriter (1935–2006)
- Joan Baptista Prats i Catalàb. 1942ESSpanish politician and professor (1942-2010)
- Núria de Gispertb. 1949ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician
- Joan Català Pagèsb. 2000ESSpanish politician
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Català have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 8.3 thousand people named Català, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled català.
- Where is Català most common?
- Català is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Català?
- In Spain, the national register counted 8,257 people named Català, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Català compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Català is the 368th most common surname of 8,205 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Català?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/catal%C3%A0The 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, “Català” — the 368th most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.