Catano
loc · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Catano is a name, most frequently recorded in Puerto Rico. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script.
- PRPuerto Rico1 in 102◐
- COColombia1 in 6K
- PEPeru1 in 56K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.0K ●
- Sources
- 170 ●
- 1 in 65K ◐
across 7 countries
32K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cataño in CO Colombia, PE Peru, MX Mexico and 10 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PR Puerto Rico | — | 74,295 | 13 rec. | — | — | Catano | 4 |
| CO Colombia | #634 | 9,339 | 7.2K rec. | — | 3 | Cataño | 61 |
| PE Peru | — | 4,338 | 3.2K rec. | — | — | Cataño | 22 |
| MX Mexico | — | 3,519 | 4.2K rec. | — | 38 | Cataño | 61 |
| US United States | — | 1,915 | 13K rec. | 1 in 174K | 1.9K | Catano | 170 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 895 | 970 rec. | — | — | Cataño | 10 |
| ES Spain | — | 771 | 560 rec. | 1 in 65K | 771 | Cataño | 35 |
| BR Brazil | — | 236 | 443 rec. | 1 in 897K | 236 | Cataño | 26 |
| CL Chile | — | 134 | 73 rec. | — | — | Cataño | 13 |
| BO Bolivia | — | 73 | 54 rec. | — | — | Cataño | 10 |
| PA Panama | — | 39 | 44 rec. | — | 1 | Cataño | 9 |
| AR Argentina | — | 27 | 356 rec. | 1 in 1.7M | 27 | Cataño | 15 |
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Languages●
- Spanish74K70%
- English13K13%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 74,301 | 70% |
| English | 13,458 | 13% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Mark Catanob. 1962USAmerican football player (born 1962)
- Manny CatanoUSAmerican soccer player-coach
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●
Attested in 13 sources across 9 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 · 21 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Catano?
- We estimate roughly 3.0 thousand people bear Catano (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Catano have the most bearers?
- Catano is most frequently recorded in Puerto Rico, where it is most often spelled catano.
- How common is Catano compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Catano is the 634th most common surname of 135,520 surnames recorded there.
Query this name via API
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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, “Catano” — the 634th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.