Cato

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Usage

Norway Norwegian
Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Latin catus = 'wise' [1] [2]

Related Names

Cato
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Kaatu
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Greenlandic
Kato
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Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Kató
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Icelandic
Kâto
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Greenlandic

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Cato
Genitive: Catos
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Cato
Genitive: Caton
Partitive: Catoa
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Cato
Genitive: Catos
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Cato
Genitive: Catos

Name Day

Norway Norway

27 May

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 24 people were named Cato (percentage of first or only given name: 38 %) [4]
  • Cato was a heavy storm in Norway in December 2011.

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[5]
45 90 2 3 43 87
Denmark Denmark[6]
42
n.a.
0
n.a.
42
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
5 0 0
n.a.
5
Greenland Greenland[8]
0 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
2563
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
2563
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Cato (m) Sources: [5][6][9][7]

Norwegian Historic Statistics Trend

Norwegian historic statistics for Cato (m)


References

  1. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1910
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. 6.0 6.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. 7.0 7.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  9. 9.0 9.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no