Catalano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: oriundo da Catalunha, na Espanha
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˌkɑtɑˈɫɑˌnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Catalano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 33K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 42K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 375 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
oriundo da Catalunha, na Espanha
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Catalano 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Catalano | 5 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | listed | Catalano | 80 |
| US United States | — | 9,973 | 1 in 33K | 10K | Catalano | 375 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,906 | 1 in 16K | 2.9K | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Catalano | 84 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 454 | 1 in 19K | 454 | Catalano | 19 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 198 | 1 in 17K | 198 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | #795 | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Catalano | 1 |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Catalano is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of catalānus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, neuter of catalán
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)
- Eduardo Catalanob. 1917ARArgentine architect (1917-2010)
- Antonino Catalanob. 1932ITItalian cyclist (1932-1987)
- Elisabetta Catalanob. 1941ITItalian photographer (1941-2015)
- Patti Catalanob. 1953USAmerican distance runner
- Bruno Catalanob. 1960MAFrench sculptor
- Pasquale Catalanob. 1966ITItalian composer
- Marcello Catalanob. 1975ITItalian botanist
- Maria Catalanob. 1982GBEnglish snooker player
- Francesca Catalanob. 1988USactress
- Torre CatalanoUSAmerican film director and screenwriter
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 10K | #3,574 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.7K | #3,382 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.8K | #3,909 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.9K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 454 | #2,872 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 198 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- What does the name Catalano mean, and where does it come from?
- oriundo da Catalunha, na Espanha Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Catalano?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌkɑtɑˈɫɑˌnoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Catalano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Catalano in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled catalano.
- How common is the name Catalano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,973 people named Catalano in 2010, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Catalano compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Catalano is the 795th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/catalanoThe 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, “Catalano” — the 795th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.