Cattanêo

surname · Latin script

Cattanêo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Late Latin capitāneus (“captain”), from caput (“head”).

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 4.5K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 9.8K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 5.8K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈11,000 people, est.

Sources
78 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cattaneo in AR Argentina, UY Uruguay, CH Switzerland 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)

Derivation of Cattanêo: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Cattanêo
  1. Late Latincapitāneus“captain”(measured from records)
  2. Late Latin rootcaput“head”(measured from records)

From Late Latin capitāneus (“captain”), from caput (“head”).

Sources 3

  • Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cattanêo 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 Cattanêo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy—≈11,000 est.≈1 in 5.8KlistedCattaneo42
CN China—≈7,900 est.≈1 in 176K—Cattaneo3
AR Argentina#8104,6581 in 9.8K4.7KCattaneo78
CH Switzerland—1,0921 in 7.7K1.1KCattaneo12
FR France—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 65K126—2
UY Uruguay#8367591 in 4.5K759Cattaneo27

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); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 Cattanêo 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 Cattanêo mean, and where does it come from?
From Late Latin capitāneus (“captain”), from caput (“head”). Recorded by Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Cattanêo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Cattanêo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cattaneo.
Where is Cattanêo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cattanêo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 4.5 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Cattanêo?
In Argentina, the national register counted 4,658 people named Cattanêo, about 1 in 9.8 thousand residents.
How common is Cattanêo compared with other names?
In Argentina, Cattanêo is the 810th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Cattanêo” — the 810th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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