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Most frequent names of population. By sex

Most frequent names of population. By sex. Men Catalonia. 2010
Ranking Number Rate per 1,000 Men
José 1 118,242 31.54
Antonio 2 114,936 30.66
Francisco 3 89,632 23.91
Manuel 4 80,882 21.58
Juan 5 80,274 21.42
Jordi 6 74,513 19.88
David 7 66,881 17.84
Josep 8 47,784 12.75
Joan 9 47,347 12.63
Daniel 10 46,535 12.41
Marc 11 46,000 12.27
Carlos 12 45,834 12.23
Ramón/Ramon 13 43,555 11.62
Javier 14 38,285 10.21
Pedro 15 38,273 10.21
José Maria/José María 16 36,718 9.80
Miguel 17 36,423 9.72
Jorge 18 35,530 9.48
Rafael 19 31,618 8.44
Albert 20 31,141 8.31
Source: Idescat. Names of the population, based on the Population Register of Catalonia.
Most frequent names of population. By sex. Women Catalonia. 2010
Ranking Number Rate per 1,000 Women
María/Maria 1 114,715 30.22
Monserrat 2 87,246 22.98
Maria del Carmen 3 74,593 19.65
Carmen 4 68,961 18.17
Josefa 5 56,494 14.88
Marta 6 52,621 13.86
Núria/Nuria 7 51,742 13.63
Laura 8 47,596 12.54
Isabel 9 47,024 12.39
Maria Teresa/María Teresa 10 44,659 11.76
Cristina 11 43,164 11.37
Antònia/Antonia 12 41,283 10.87
Francesca 13 40,762 10.74
Dolores 14 40,284 10.61
Ana 15 38,649 10.18
Ana Maria/Ana María 16 37,554 9.89
Rosa 17 36,888 9.72
Anna 18 33,932 8.94
Teresa 19 33,283 8.77
Maria Dolores/María Dolores 20 33,168 8.74
Source: Idescat. Names of the population, based on the Population Register of Catalonia.

Last update: December 22, 2010.

Methodological note

Methodological aspects

The Statistical Institute of Catalonia (Idescat) offers information in relation to the names and surnames of the whole population resident in Catalonia.

The source is the Population Registry of Catalonia, an administrative registry containing current obligatory data on residents registered in the municipal censuses of inhabitants from the City Councils of Catalonia, which may be referred to by the public administrations when exercising their authority. Data are on January, 1.

From 2021, the data is sourced from the Continuous Register of the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

It should be explained that the source used to produce the database contains the names in capital letters without accents so that , in some cases it is not possible to differentiate between names in Catalan and Spanish, when the accent is the only differentiating feature. In these cases the two options are presented together (Maria/María, Àlex/Álex).

When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".