Catalan

At the 2020 census, 6,429 Americans bore the surname Catalan — 5,240th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 46,500.

By the numbers

People: 6,429
Rank: 5,240th
How common: 1 in 46,500
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

from French catalan, from Catalan català.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Catalan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 87.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 6.3%
White, not Hispanic 4.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Catalan

Eugène Charles Catalan (1814–1894)French and Belgian mathematician
Zaida Catalán (1980–2017)Swedish lawyer and politician
Carlos Solchaga Catalán (born 1944)Spanish economist and politician
Matías Catalán (born 1992)Chilean association football player
Juan Francisco Marco y Catalán (1771–1841)Catholic cardinal
Catalan, Lord of Monaco (1415–1457)politician

People named Catalan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Catalan

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.