Cataleya
given name · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cataleya is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. It appears chiefly in Spanish and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Modern coinage form the flower Cattleya, popularized by a character in a 2011 film.
- ECEcuador1 in 9.4K◐
- ATAustria1 in 13K
- ARArgentina1 in 23K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈9.3K ●
- Sources
- 30 ●
- 1 in 4.1K ◐
across 11 countries
12K records
Official registry-verified
Moldova
Meaning & origin●
Modern coinage form the flower Cattleya, popularized by a character in a 2011 film.
Sources 2
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #985 | 29,171 | 9.6K rec. | — | 2.8K | Cataleya | 18 |
| FR France | — | 3,655 | — | 1 in 19K | 3.7K | — | — |
| PE Peru | — | 2,501 | 214 rec. | — | — | Cataleya | 10 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 1,801△ | 23 rec. | 1 in 9.4K | 1.8K | Cataleya | 11 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,777△ | 34 rec. | 1 in 28K | 1.8K | Cataleya | 10 |
| CL Chile | — | 1,435 | 173 rec. | — | 186 | Cataleya | 10 |
| MX Mexico | — | 1,386 | 756 rec. | — | 3 | Cataleya | 13 |
| AT Austria | — | 1,229 | 4 rec. | — | 393 | Cataleya | 7 |
| MD Moldova | — | 824 | 0 rec. | 1 in 4.1K | 824 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 529 | 13 rec. | — | 46 | Cataleya | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | #862 | 500 | 189 rec. | — | — | Cataleya | 7 |
| CA Canada | — | 474 | 4 rec. | — | 3 | Cataleya | 3 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish40K65%
- French12K19%
- English3.1K5%
- Catalan1.8K3%
- German1.7K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 40,214 | 65% |
| French | 11,730 | 19% |
| English | 3,055 | 5% |
| Catalan | 1,777 | 3% |
| German | 1,690 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1962 | 1 |
| 1975 | 1 |
| 1996 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 |
| 2012 | 19 |
| 2013 | 33 |
| 2014 | 44 |
| 2015 | 49 |
| 2016 | 98 |
| 2017 | 152 |
| 2018 | 138 |
| 2019 | 134 |
| 2020 | 150 |
| 2021 | 214 |
| 2022 | 190 |
| 2023 | 307 |
| 2024 | 267 |
EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 20 years between 1962–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 57 sources across 35 countries.
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 2026-09-12 data build · 294 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Cataleya?
- We estimate roughly 9.3 thousand people bear Cataleya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Cataleya have the most bearers?
- Cataleya is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled cataleya.
- Where is Cataleya most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cataleya is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 4.1 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Cataleya compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Cataleya is the 985th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
- Is Cataleya a male or female name?
- Cataleya is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Cataleya mean?
- Recorded meaning: Modern coinage form the flower Cattleya, popularized by a character in a 2011 film.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Cataleya” — the 985th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.