Katinas

surname · Latin script

Meaning: tomcat (male cat)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kətinəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Katinas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 456K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 507K
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.5M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

169 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
15 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 456K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KatinasLatin(measured from records)
ΚατιναςGreek(measured from records)

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(measured from records)

tomcat (male cat)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Katinas 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.

Where Katinas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1691 in 2M186Katinas15
AR Argentina171 in 2.7M17——
NO Norway121 in 456K12——
FI Finland111 in 507K11——
ES Spain111 in 4.5M11——
DK Denmark41 in 1.5M4——

169 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Katinas is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Катинас

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Katinas 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.

  • Kartais gali būti „suliteratūrinta“ iš Kačinauskas (žr.). Bet gali būti ir suslavinta iš Katinas (žr.)

    as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

  • In Lithuanian, Iš liet. kūtinas „katė-patinas“ (LKŽ V 410). KATINAUSKAS, Katinaiskas Ob, Pkn, Pnd 2, Pš, Rk 7 (12). Kartais gali būti „suliteratūrinta“ iš Kačinduskas (žr.). Bet gali būti ir suslavinta iš Kūtinas (žr.).

    as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

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)

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)

FormalDear Katinas,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Katinas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000186#91,801
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020173#108,965
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010169#105,600
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—17—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—12#52,250
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—11#114,632
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—11#44,030
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—4#70,514
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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 Katinas mean, and where does it come from?
tomcat (male cat) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Katinas?
A machine transcription gives /kətinəz/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Katinas have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 169 people named Katinas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled katinas.
Where is Katinas most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Katinas is densest in Norway — about 1 in 456 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Katinas?
In the United States, the national register counted 169 people named Katinas in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.

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The 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, “Katinas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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