The Catanese surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,565 people carried this name — #17,874 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 188,700 people counted. That is down 1% from 1,586 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Catanese surname
A surname transferred from the place name.
Habitational surname, from catanese (“of or from Catania”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Catanese» (Italian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 169 people named Catanese live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
106 people named Catanese live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Bern.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 93 people named Catanese.
Most of them — 74 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 11 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Who carried it
People named Catanese,
with a public archive behind them.
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Fabrizio Catanese 1950– · mathematician
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Tarcisio Catanese 1967–2017 · association football player
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Alberto Catanese 1989– · researcher
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Catanese.
- Catalan 6,899 · U.S. census
- Catalano 9,973 · U.S. census
- Cataldi 922 · U.S. census
- Cataldo 4,711 · U.S. census
- Catalon 155 · U.S. census
- Catan 199 · U.S. census
- Catani 136 · U.S. census
- Catania 3,412 · U.S. census
- Catanzano 189 · U.S. census
- Catanzaro 2,851 · U.S. census
- Catarino 689 · U.S. census
- Cate 4,987 · U.S. census
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