Catô
given name · Latin script
Catô is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin Cato. A cognomen made particularly famous by Cato the Elder and Younger, members of the gens Porcia.
- USUnited States1 in 40K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 45K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 105K
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 Catô itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 350 (measured from records)
- 1 in 337 (inferred from the name graph)
8,298 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cato in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines and 3 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)
From Latin Cato. A cognomen made particularly famous by Cato the Elder and Younger, members of the gens Porcia.
Sources 5
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Catô 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 | — | 8,298 | 1 in 40K | 8.3K | Cato | 350 |
| BR Brazil | — | 6,914as Gato | 1 in 31K | 6.9K | — | 2 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,609as Gato | 1 in 31K | 1.6K | — | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 14 | Cato | 148 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Cato | 25 |
| SE Sweden | — | 558 | 1 in 18K | 558 | Cato | 23 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 301 | 1 in 337 | 301 | — | 7 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Cato | 6 |
| GY Guyana | #462 | 208 | 1 in 3.6K | 208 | Cato | 4 |
| GD Grenada | — | 174 | 1 in 650 | 174 | — | 6 |
8,298 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; 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 Catô mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Cato. A cognomen made particularly famous by Cato the Elder and Younger, members of the gens Porcia. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
- Is Catô a male or female name?
- Catô is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Catô have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.3 thousand people named Catô, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cato.
- Where is Catô most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Catô is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 337 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Catô?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,298 people named Catô in 2010, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
- How common is Catô compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Catô is the 462nd most common surname of 15,834 surnames recorded there.
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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%B4The 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, “Catô” — the 462nd most common surname in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.