Catalo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Alternative form of cattelo
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Catalo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 105K(inferred from the name graph)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 197K
- FIFinland≈1 in 555K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 105K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
second-person singular voseo imperative of catar combined with lo
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Catalo is read(measured from records)
Catalo is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English59%
Alternative form of cattelo.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish19%
second-person singular voseo imperative of catar combined with lo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Catalo in Portuguese.
- French5.2%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Catalo in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Catalo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Catalo | 25 |
| BR Brazil | 105 | 1 in 2M | 105 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 4M | listed | Catalo | 62 |
| PT Portugal | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Catalo | 2 |
| FR France | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | 2 | — | — |
| FI Finland | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 555K | — | Catalo | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)
Attested in 3 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 105 | #61,079 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 2 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Catalo come from?
- second-person singular voseo imperative of catar combined with lo Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Catalo mean?
- In English, Alternative form of cattelo.
- In which country does Catalo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Catalo in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled catalo.
- How common is the name Catalo?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 105 people named Catalo, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cataloThe 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, “Catalo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.