Cataño
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cataño is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 3.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 55K
- USUnited States1 in 174K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Catano in US United States.
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.
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cataño 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #642 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | 3 | Cataño | 64 |
| US United States | — | 1,915 | 1 in 174K | 1.9K | Catano | 184 |
| ES Spain | — | 771 | 1 in 65K | 771 | Cataño | 37 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Cataño | 28 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 172K | listed | — | 18 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Cataño | 10 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Cataño | 11 |
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; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
- Gonzalo Catañob. 1945COColombian sociologist
- José Carlos Catañob. 1954ESSpanish poet
- Sergio Catañob. 1959MXMexican director of telenovelas
- Claudio Catañob. 1985COColombian actor and director
- Arturo Catañob. 1989MXMexican voice actor
- Diego Catañob. 1990MXMexican actor
- Daniel Catañob. 1992COColombian footballer
- Manuela Vanegasb. 2000COnot in their usual nameColombian footballer
- Adriana CatañoUSAmerican actress
- Néstor CatañoCOColombian researcher, computer scientist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 771 | #5,570 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 771 | #5,568 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 3 | #113 |
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
- In which country does Cataño have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Cataño in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cataño.
- How common is the name Cataño?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,915 people named Cataño in 2010, about 1 in 174 thousand residents.
- How common is Cataño compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Cataño is the 642nd most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cataño?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cata%C3%B1oThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Cataño” — the 642nd most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.