Cattán

surname · Latin script

Cattán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 207 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: forma reduzida de Cattano.

  • UYUruguay1 in 100K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 355K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 840K

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.

United States (measured from records)

207 people, 2010

Record sources
43 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 100K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cattan in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, US United States and 1 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)

forma reduzida de Cattano

Cited for this meaning 2

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Cattán is found

(measured from records)

Cattán 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 Cattán is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2071 in 1.6M224Cattan43
AR Argentina1281 in 355K128Cattan29
BR Brazil571 in 3.7M57Cattan33
UY Uruguay341 in 100K34Cattan5
ES Spain151 in 3.3M15—5
CH Switzerland101 in 840K10—2
BE Belgium61 in 2M6—1

207 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Cattán 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

What does the name Cattán mean, and where does it come from?
forma reduzida de Cattano Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos and Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
Which countries have the most people with the surname Cattán?
In the United States, the national register counted about 207 people named Cattán, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cattan. After it come Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Cattán most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cattán is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 100 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Cattán?
In the United States, the national register counted 207 people named Cattán in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million 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, “Cattán” — ranked 88925th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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