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Most frequent names of population. By sex

Most frequent names of population. By sex. Men Catalonia. 2012
Ranking Number Rate per 1,000 Men
José 1 111,305 29.61
Antonio 2 109,891 29.24
Francisco 3 85,060 22.63
Manuel 4 77,400 20.59
Juan 5 76,007 20.22
Jordi 6 74,373 19.79
David 7 67,767 18.03
Marc 8 48,888 13.01
Daniel 9 47,104 12.53
Joan 10 46,327 12.32
Josep 11 45,470 12.10
Carlos 12 45,454 12.09
Ramon/Ramón 13 41,363 11.00
Javier 14 38,307 10.19
Pedro 15 36,490 9.71
José Maria/José María 16 35,537 9.45
Jorge 17 35,236 9.37
Miguel 18 35,069 9.33
Albert 19 31,200 8.30
Rafael 20 30,615 8.14
Source: Idescat. Names of the population, based on the Population Register of Catalonia.
Most frequent names of population. By sex. Women Catalonia. 2012
Ranking Number Rate per 1,000 Women
Maria/María 1 109,888 28.64
Montserrat 2 85,322 22.24
María del Carmen 3 73,931 19.27
Carmen 4 65,168 16.98
Josefa 5 53,289 13.89
Marta 6 53,135 13.85
Núria/Nuria 7 51,718 13.48
Laura 8 48,288 12.58
Isabel 9 45,353 11.82
Maria Teresa/María Teresa 10 44,068 11.48
Cristina 11 43,293 11.28
Antònia/Antonia 12 39,069 10.18
Francisca 13 38,628 10.07
Dolores 14 37,887 9.87
Ana 15 37,636 9.81
Ana Maria/Ana María 16 37,383 9.74
Anna 17 34,648 9.03
Rosa 18 34,531 9.00
Maria Dolores/María Dolores 19 32,780 8.54
Teresa 20 30,961 8.07
Source: Idescat. Names of the population, based on the Population Register of Catalonia.

Last update: November 13, 2012.

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 "..".