Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Hungarian usage, Kató is a diminutive of Katalin.
Kató’s family of names
In Hungarian usage, Kató is a diminutive of Katalin. In Hungarian usage, Kató has a conventional naming counterpart in the English form Cathy.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
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Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Kató
- Kató LombHungarian interpreter, translator, and author of several books on language learning1909–2003
- Kató HámánHungarian Esperanto and Communist activist (1884-1936)
- Kató BárczyHungarian actress1921–1989
- Kato van der HoevenDutch cellist (1877-1959)
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