Catú

surname · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 9.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 850K
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 1.3M

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.

Guatemala (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,700 people, est.

Sources
31 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 9.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Guatemala, est.

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 Catu in PY Paraguay.

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.

Sources 1

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Catú 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 Catú is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GT Guatemala≈1,700 est.≈1 in 9.9K—Catú23
BR Brazil1511 in 1.4M151—1
US United States1281 in 2.6M153Catú31
FR France≈29 est.≈1 in 2.4Mlisted—1
ES Spain161 in 3.1M16—3
PY Paraguay≈6 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Catu1
CR Costa Rica61 in 850K6—3

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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

Catú is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Cātu, Catu

2 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

In which country does Catú have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Catú in Guatemala, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled catú.
How common is the name Catú?
In Brazil, the national register counted 151 people named Catú, about 1 in 1.4 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, “Catú”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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