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Most frequent names of population. By sex

Most frequent names of population. By sex. Men Catalonia. 2014
Ranking Number Rate per 1,000 Men
José 1 107,564 28.82
Antonio 2 106,974 28.66
Francisco 3 82,432 22.09
Manuel 4 75,384 20.20
Jordi 5 74,157 19.87
Juan 6 73,636 19.73
David 7 67,993 18.22
Marc 8 50,263 13.47
Daniel 9 47,328 12.68
Joan 10 45,800 12.27
Carlos 11 45,208 12.11
Josep 12 44,171 11.83
Ramon/Ramón 13 40,184 10.77
Javier 14 38,267 10.25
Pedro 15 35,470 9.50
Jorge 16 34,986 9.37
José Maria/José María 17 34,828 9.33
Miguel 18 34,324 9.20
Albert 19 31,139 8.34
Xavier 20 30,614 8.20
Source: Idescat. Names of the population, based on the Population Register of Catalonia.
Most frequent names of population. By sex. Women Catalonia. 2014
Ranking Number Rate per 1,000 Women
Maria/María 1 107,218 27.96
Montserrat 2 84,231 21.97
María del Carmen 3 73,529 19.18
Carmen 4 63,142 16.47
Marta 5 53,230 13.88
Núria/Nuria 6 51,583 13.45
Josefa 7 51,451 13.42
Laura 8 48,508 12.65
Isabel 9 44,455 11.59
Maria Teresa/María Teresa 10 43,569 11.36
Cristina 11 43,171 11.26
Antònia/Antonia 12 37,829 9.87
Francisca 13 37,517 9.79
Ana Maria/Ana María 14 37,191 9.70
Ana 15 37,057 9.67
Dolores 16 36,567 9.54
Anna 17 34,885 9.10
Rosa 18 33,384 8.71
Maria Dolores/María Dolores 19 32,540 8.49
Teresa 20 29,775 7.77
Source: Idescat. Names of the population, based on the Population Register of Catalonia.

Last update: November 13, 2014.

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 "..".