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Most frequent surnames of population

Most frequent surnames of population Catalonia. 2012
Firt surname Secon surname
Number Rate per 1,000 inhabitants Number Rate per 1,000 inhabitants
García 170,913 22.50 174,671 22.99
Martínez 119,341 15.71 120,789 15.90
López 114,606 15.09 117,826 15.51
Sánchez 103,260 13.59 105,461 13.88
Rodríguez 100,237 13.20 101,165 13.32
Fernández 97,699 12.86 99,538 13.10
Pérez 92,937 12.23 96,008 12.64
González 91,684 12.07 92,613 12.19
Gómez 56,624 7.45 57,412 7.56
Ruíz 50,240 6.61 52,378 6.90
Martin 45,985 6.05 45,465 5.99
Jiménez 44,793 5.90 43,995 5.79
Moreno 42,665 5.62 42,914 5.65
Hernández 38,546 5.07 39,045 5.14
Muñoz 38,371 5.05 38,806 5.11
Díaz 35,135 4.63 35,264 4.64
Romero 28,923 3.81 28,789 3.79
Navarro 28,415 3.74 28,678 3.78
Torres 26,922 3.54 26,849 3.53
Álvarez 26,655 3.51 26,922 3.54
Source: Idescat. Surnames 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 "..".