Catão Surname
Approximately 75 people bear this surname
Catão Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 63 | 1:3,398,005 | 96,455 |
| Portugal | 4 | 1:2,604,560 | 16,079 |
| United States | 4 | 1:90,614,733 | 1,198,479 |
| Angola | 1 | 1:26,989,214 | 11,853 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
Catão Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Catão Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Catão is most common in Brazil. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Catão? popularity and diffusion
The surname Catão is the 2,185,341st most widely held surname on earth, borne by approximately 1 in 97,167,279 people. It occurs mostly in The Americas, where 91 percent of Catão live; 84 percent live in South America and 84 percent live in Luso-South America.
The last name Catão is most frequently occurring in Brazil, where it is held by 63 people, or 1 in 3,398,005. In Brazil it is mostly concentrated in: São Paulo, where 25 percent live, Rio de Janeiro, where 17 percent live and Paraíba, where 16 percent live. Aside from Brazil this surname is found in 6 countries. It also occurs in Portugal, where 5 percent live and The United States, where 5 percent live.
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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
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- 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 Catão
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