Katsaros
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a nickname meaning ‘curly-haired’, ultimately from akantheros ‘thorny’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Katsaros is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country. Katsaros is also written Κατσαρος in Greek.
- USUnited States1 in 590K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.4M
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Katsaros itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- 1 in 590K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 named Katsarou, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Katsaros in other scripts: Greek
(measured from records)Locally spelled Κατσαρος in GR Greece and Katsarou in DE Germany.
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)from a nickname meaning ‘curly-haired’, ultimately from akantheros ‘thorny’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Katsaros is found
(measured from records)Katsaros 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | #520 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | 26 | Κατσαρος | 75 |
| US United States | — | 564 | 1 in 590K | 564 | Katsaros | 99 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Katsarou | 27 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Katsaros | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 4.7M | — | Katsaros | 29 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | — | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Giorgos Katsarosb. 1934GRGreek musician
- Andonia Katsarosb. 1945AUactress
- Caslin Katsarosactress
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Katsaros mean, and where does it come from?
- from a nickname meaning ‘curly-haired’, ultimately from akantheros ‘thorny’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Katsaros?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Katsarou in Greece, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Germany, Cyprus and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Katsaros most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Katsaros is densest in the United States — about 1 in 590 thousand people — even though Greece holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Katsaros?
- In the United States, the national register counted 564 people named Katsaros in 2010, about 1 in 590 thousand residents.
- How common is Katsaros compared with other names?
- In Greece, Katsaros is the 520th most common surname of 112,415 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/katsarosThe 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, “Katsaros” — the 520th most common surname in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.