Catanho
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/kɐtɐɲu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Catanho is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 394K(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 36K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 230K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
537 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Catanho 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 537 | 1 in 394K | 537 | Catanho | 49 |
| PT Portugal | #846 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Catanho | 39 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | Catanho | 16 |
| US United States | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | listed | Catanho | 39 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Catanho | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | Catanho | 3 |
537 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Alcides Catanhob. 1972football player (born 1972)
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 537 | #15,980 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Catanho?
- A machine transcription gives /kɐtɐɲu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Catanho have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 537 people named Catanho, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled catanho.
- How common is the name Catanho?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 537 people named Catanho, about 1 in 394 thousand residents.
- How common is Catanho compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Catanho is the 846th most common surname of 45,564 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Catanho?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/catanhoThe 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, “Catanho” — the 846th most common surname in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.