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Most frequent names of population. By sex

Most frequent names of population. By sex. Men Catalonia. 2016
Ranking Number Rate per 1,000 Men
Antonio 1 102,062 27.40
José 2 100,769 27.05
Francisco 3 77,848 20.90
Jordi 4 73,806 19.81
Manuel 5 72,118 19.36
Juan 6 69,268 18.59
David 7 68,483 18.38
Marc 8 52,567 14.11
Daniel 9 47,837 12.84
Carlos 10 44,670 11.99
Joan 11 44,493 11.94
Josep 12 42,034 11.28
Javier 13 38,175 10.25
Ramon/Ramón 14 38,026 10.21
Jorge 15 34,477 9.25
José Maria/José María 16 33,633 9.03
Pedro 17 33,625 9.03
Miguel 18 33,055 8.87
Albert 19 31,010 8.32
Xavier 20 30,680 8.24
Source: Idescat. Names of the population, based on the Population Register of Catalonia.
Most frequent names of population. By sex. Women Catalonia. 2016
Ranking Number Rate per 1,000 Women
Maria/María 1 98,704 29.60
Montserrat 2 81,969 24.58
María del Carmen 3 72,324 21.69
Carmen 4 58,747 17.62
Marta 5 52,987 15.89
Núria/Nuria 6 51,138 15.33
Josefa 7 48,079 14.42
Laura 8 47,883 14.36
Maria Teresa/María Teresa 9 42,474 12.74
Isabel 10 42,425 12.72
Cristina 11 42,167 12.64
Antònia/Antonia 12 35,476 10.64
Ana Maria/Ana María 13 35,341 10.60
Francisca 14 35,170 10.55
Ana 15 35,124 10.53
Dolores 16 34,056 10.21
Anna 17 33,830 10.14
Maria Dolores/María Dolores 18 31,835 9.55
Rosa 19 30,798 9.23
Sílvia/Silvia 20 28,264 8.48
Source: Idescat. Names of the population, based on the Population Register of Catalonia.

Last update: October 17, 2016.

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 "..".