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Most frequent surnames of population

Most frequent surnames of population Catalonia. 2016
Firt surname Secon surname
Number Rate per 1,000 inhabitants Number Rate per 1,000 inhabitants
García 169,946 22.44 174,221 23.01
Martínez 118,694 15.67 120,802 15.95
López 113,756 15.02 117,519 15.52
Sánchez 102,613 13.55 105,452 13.93
Rodríguez 100,159 13.23 101,706 13.43
Fernández 97,381 12.86 99,577 13.15
Pérez 92,742 12.25 96,077 12.69
González 91,447 12.08 92,836 12.26
Gómez 56,392 7.45 57,523 7.60
Ruíz 49,865 6.58 52,198 6.89
Martin 45,932 6.07 45,459 6.00
Jiménez 45,083 5.95 44,477 5.87
Moreno 42,634 5.63 43,040 5.68
Hernández 38,817 5.13 39,466 5.21
Muñoz 38,232 5.05 38,632 5.10
Díaz 35,149 4.64 35,305 4.66
Romero 28,950 3.82 28,936 3.82
Navarro 28,174 3.72 28,449 3.76
Torres 26,860 3.55 26,791 3.54
Álvarez 26,523 3.50 27,010 3.57
Source: Idescat. Surnames 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 "..".