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Most frequent names of population. By sex

Most frequent names of population. By sex. Men Catalonia. 2021
Ranking Number Rate per 1,000 Men
Antonio 1 92,167 11.87
José 2 87,434 11.26
Jordi 3 72,541 9.34
David 4 68,819 8.86
Francisco 5 68,768 8.86
Manuel 6 65,156 8.39
Juan 7 61,168 7.88
Marc 8 54,975 7.08
Daniel 9 48,369 6.23
Carlos 10 43,639 5.62
Joan 11 42,004 5.41
Josep 12 37,915 4.88
Javier 13 37,670 4.85
Ramon/Ramón 14 34,124 4.40
Jorge 15 33,183 4.27
José Maria/José María 16 31,180 4.02
Albert 17 30,565 3.94
Miguel 18 30,344 3.91
Pedro 19 30,311 3.90
Xavier 20 29,168 3.76
Source: Idescat. Surnames of the population, based on the Continuos Register of the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
Most frequent names of population. By sex. Women Catalonia. 2021
Ranking Number Rate per 1,000 Women
Maria/María 1 91,172 11.74
Montserrat 2 76,805 9.89
María del Carmen 3 70,588 9.09
Marta 4 53,156 6.85
Carmen 5 51,564 6.64
Núria/Nuria 6 49,674 6.40
Laura 7 48,700 6.27
Cristina 8 42,634 5.49
Josefa 9 40,904 5.27
Maria Teresa/María Teresa 10 40,851 5.26
Isabel 11 39,284 5.06
Ana Maria/Ana María 12 35,921 4.63
Anna 13 35,457 4.57
Ana 14 33,819 4.36
Antònia/Antonia 15 31,455 4.05
Francisca 16 31,235 4.02
Maria Dolores/María Dolores 17 30,393 3.91
Dolores 18 29,424 3.79
Sílvia/Silvia 19 28,746 3.70
Júlia/Julia 20 28,099 3.62
Source: Idescat. Surnames of the population, based on the Continuos Register of the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

Last update: October 26, 2022.

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).

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". 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 "..".