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Cataldo

Boys' name

Strong in battle, through Cathal

Cataldo has been given to 117 babies in the U.S. since 1914. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Cataldo, 1953

1 in 770,000

Cataldo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cataldo: meaning, origin, and history

Strong in battle, through Cathal

Irish

What Cataldo means

Cataldo belongs to the name family reached through Cataldo → Cathal. Its meaning is “strong in battle”.

Origin, language, and formation

Cataldo is used in Italian. Its origins include Irish.

Cataldo comes through Irish Cathal.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cathal.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Cataldo is pronounced /kaˈtal.do/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 117 boys were recorded with the name Cataldo between 1914 and 1953. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1918; its best national rank was #1,836 in 1918.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cataldo?

Cataldo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1953, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1953
1 in 770,000
5 of 3,852,460 births
Among boys only
1 in 394,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1953
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
534,066 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cataldo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1953 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 534,066 children born in 1953 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cataldo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cataldos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cataldo was born before 1922 — so the typical Cataldo is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
41.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5
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1920s — 41.0% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Cataldo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (18)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,836
1918

Where Cataldo is used

Across 1910–2025, Cataldo was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 576,821 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cataldo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cataldo around the world

Where Cataldo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1925–1970
    #1,831
    in 1970
  • South Australia
    1971–1995
    #533
    in 1995

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cataldo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,836
1918
Peak year
1918
18 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1953
All-time count
117
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Cataldo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Cataldo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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