Kató
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a diminutive of the female given name Katalin, equivalent to English Cathy
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/ˈkɒtoː/(recorded in a dictionary) Hungarian · from Wiktionary
Kató is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 49K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 55K
- SESweden1 in 96K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
5,257 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kato in US United States.
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)a diminutive of the female given name Katalin, equivalent to English Cathy
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kató 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.
5,257 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); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)- Katō Kiyomasab. 1562JP16th-century Japanese daimyo (1562-1611)
- Daisuke Katōb. 1911JPJapanese actor (1911–1975)
- Hibari Misorab. 1937JPnot in their usual nameJapanese singer and actress (1937-1989)
- Monkey Punchb. 1937JPnot in their usual nameJapanese manga artist (1937–2019)
- Masahiko Tsugawab. 1940JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actor and film director
- Toru Emorib. 1944JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actor and playwright
- Masaya Katōb. 1963JPJapanese model, actor and voice actor
- Koyukib. 1976JPnot in their usual nameJapanese actor and model
- Ayuko Katob. 1979JPJapanese politician
- Yuria Katob. 1981JPJapanese pornographic actress
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kató mean, and where does it come from?
- a diminutive of the female given name Katalin, equivalent to English Cathy Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Kató?
- In the etymology graph, Cate, Caja and Kaarina are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Kató?
- In Hungarian /ˈkɒtoː/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Kató have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named Kató, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kato.
- How common is the name Kató?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,257 people named Kató in 2010, about 1 in 63 thousand residents.
- How common is Kató compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Kató is the 946th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kató?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kat%C3%B3The 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, “Kató” — the 946th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.