Catalá Surname
Approximately 238 people bear this surname
Catalá Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain | 176 | 1:265,637 | 16,656 |
| Mexico | 14 | 1:8,866,158 | 37,743 |
| Argentina | 13 | 1:3,287,955 | 132,850 |
| Brazil | 7 | 1:30,582,047 | 441,004 |
| Chile | 5 | 1:3,523,295 | 39,650 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Puerto Rico | 3 | 1:1,183,380 | 5,289 |
| Bolivia | 2 | 1:5,308,217 | 12,400 |
| Uruguay | 2 | 1:1,715,879 | 35,955 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1:16,887,176 | 156,465 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Portugal | 1 | 1:10,418,241 | 25,048 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
The alternate forms: Catala (18,770), Català (187), Catalã (1) & Cátala (4) are calculated separately.
Catalá Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Catalá Come From? nationality or country of origin
Catalá is most common in Spain. It can occur as: Catala, Català, Catalã or Cátala. For other possible spellings of this name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Catalá? popularity and diffusion
The surname Catalá is the 1,052,587th most commonly held family name on a worldwide basis It is held by approximately 1 in 30,619,941 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 78 percent of Catalá live; 74 percent live in Southwestern Europe and 74 percent live in Iberian Europe.
Catalá is most frequently occurring in Spain, where it is held by 176 people, or 1 in 265,637. In Spain it is mostly concentrated in: Valencian Community, where 56 percent reside, Madrid, where 13 percent reside and Murcia, where 9 percent reside. Barring Spain this surname exists in 19 countries. It is also found in Mexico, where 6 percent reside and Argentina, where 5 percent reside.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Catalá
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