Catana

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Catana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 127K
  • DKDenmark1 in 217K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

394 people

Sources
113 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 127K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Catalan

subst. ard. <magh.. kotona ostas". 1. Catana, R. (17 B III 178) ; - jupars (16 B I 80) ; Catand (Ard) ; Catana (Mot ; Sd X) ; C6lan (Tel 58). 2. Ceitelnipl (17 B 282). 3. Catanu (AO VI 58) ; Catanufa, Ghita (erou de balada). 4. Catanloiu (Sd XVI 99) -escu. 5. Prob. Cotana b. (16 B 1.I 98).

Sources 2

  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Catana 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 Catana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain3941 in 127K394—5
US United States3301 in 1M360Catana113
BR Brazil1901 in 1.1M190——
AR Argentina561 in 812K56—1
PL Poland401 in 957K26—1
DK Denmark271 in 217K27—1
CH Switzerland241 in 350K24Catana2
SE Sweden161 in 638K16—2

394 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Catana is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Romanian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Italy, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Catană, Cătană, Cătana, Catanǎ, Çatana

  • Hindi surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Romania, Italy

    Also written Catană, Cătană, Cataña, Çatana

45 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Catana is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, a type of short-barreled pistol used in Corsica

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, katana (type of Japanese curved sword)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Aymara, en,prepQficíon.Lunes^\>el martes catana, En Lunc%oMar : tes^y afsi dectros tiempos.,

    as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara

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)

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)

Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Catana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—394#9,686
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—394#9,664
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020360#60,433
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010330#60,960
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000239#75,219
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—190#38,292
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—56—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—27#18,404
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202626—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—26#75,806
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202424#32,062
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—16#29,761

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Catana have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 394 people named Catana, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Catana most common?
Catana is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 127 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Catana?
In Spain, the national register counted 394 people named Catana, about 1 in 127 thousand 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, “Catana”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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