Given name & surname
Cataldo
Cataldo is a surname. It is used in English and Italian.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Italian usage, Cataldo developed from Cathal.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1914. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cataldo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 117
- 117 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1953. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 18 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 171 as a first name in 2020; 4,177 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cataldo’s family of names
In Italian usage, Cataldo developed from the Irish form Cathal.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Cataldo
- Aldo BaglioItalian actor, film director and screenwriter (born 1958)
- Cataldo SpitaleArgentine footballerborn 1908
- Cataldo AmodeiSicilian composer1649–1693
- Cataldo CozzaGerman footballerborn 1985
- Cataldo AgostinelliItalian mathematician (1894-1988)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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