Catanese
surname · Latin script
Meaning: of, from or relating to Catania
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/katanese/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Catanese is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 16Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 48K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 79K
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)
- Record sources
- 256 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)of, from or relating to Catania
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Catanese 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Catanese | 28 |
| US United States | 1,565 | 1 in 213K | 1.6K | Catanese | 256 |
| FR France | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 214K | 31 | — | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 157K | — | Catanese | 10 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Catanese | 30 |
| AU Australia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Catanese | 38 |
| CH Switzerland | 107 | 1 in 79K | 107 | Catanese | 6 |
| UY Uruguay | 70 | 1 in 48K | 70 | — | — |
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 2000; the xinhua-italian-manual register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Catanese is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, habitante de Catania com sufixo sing. -ese
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)- Fabrizio Cataneseb. 1950ITItalian mathematician
- Tarcisio Cataneseb. 1967ITItalian professional footballer (born 1967)
- Gérard CatanèseFRFrench politician
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,635 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,874 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #17,916 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 107 | #10,464 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 70 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 51 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 31 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 7 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Catanese mean, and where does it come from?
- of, from or relating to Catania Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Catanese?
- In the etymology graph, Catania is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Catanese?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /katanese/; in Italian /katanese/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Catanese have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Catanese in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled catanese.
- How common is the name Catanese?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,565 people named Catanese in 2010, about 1 in 213 thousand 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/cataneseThe 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, “Catanese”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.