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Most frequent surnames of population

Most frequent surnames of population Catalonia. 2018
Firt surname Secon surname
Number Rate per 1,000 inhabitants Number Rate per 1,000 inhabitants
García 169,794 22.07 174,476 22.68
Martínez 118,978 15.46 120,996 15.73
López 114,049 14.82 117,930 15.33
Sánchez 102,875 13.37 105,827 13.75
Rodríguez 101,163 13.15 102,839 13.37
Fernández 97,209 12.63 99,777 12.97
Pérez 93,113 12.10 96,667 12.56
González 91,914 11.95 93,460 12.15
Gómez 56,745 7.38 57,883 7.52
Ruíz 49,829 6.48 52,155 6.78
Martin 45,929 5.97 45,449 5.91
Jiménez 45,560 5.92 44,979 5.85
Moreno 42,861 5.57 43,238 5.62
Hernández 39,615 5.15 40,276 5.23
Muñoz 38,381 4.99 38,840 5.05
Díaz 35,750 4.65 35,870 4.66
Romero 29,185 3.79 29,290 3.81
Navarro 28,103 3.65 28,383 3.69
Torres 27,219 3.54 27,022 3.51
Álvarez 26,855 3.49 27,228 3.54
Source: Idescat. Surnames of the population, based on the Population Register of Catalonia.

Last update: October 31, 2018.

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 "..".