Catòn
surname · Latin script
Catòn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Barbados it is the 43rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Catō.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 61K
- CACanada≈1 in 64K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 335 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
5,467 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Grenada
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Caton in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 6 more.
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)
Borrowed from Latin Catō.
Sources 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Catòn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 5,467 | 1 in 61K | 5.5K | Caton | 335 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Caton | 147 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 239K | — | Caton | 6 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Caton | 28 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Caton | 68 |
| NI Nicaragua | #643 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Caton | 7 |
| CR Costa Rica | #568 | 217 | 1 in 23K | 217 | Caton | 11 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Caton | 17 |
| GD Grenada | — | 63 | 1 in 1.8K | 63 | — | 3 |
| BB Barbados | #43 | — | — | — | Caton | 2 |
5,467 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; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Catòn mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin Catō. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Catòn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.5 thousand people named Catòn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caton.
- Where is Catòn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Catòn is densest in Grenada — about 1 in 1.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Catòn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,467 people named Catòn in 2010, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
- How common is Catòn compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Catòn is the 43rd most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Catòn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cat%C3%B2nThe 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, “Catòn” — the 43rd most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.