Given name & surname
Catarino
Catarino is a masculine given name. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Catarino isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1896. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Catarino through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,690
- 1,690 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1945
- 34 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,370 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,370 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 34 in 1945. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,013 as a first name in 2020; 652 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.
Catarino’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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