Cato

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Cato: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Cato: Recorded since 1945, it reached #85 in 1973, and it stood at #5,119 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
81times a registrar ranked it
80years from first to last
#85highest recorded position
18groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 2001–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2001	#3134
2006	#4052
2013	#3315
2015	#4747
2016	#2804
2017	#3996
2019	#3937
2020	#3848
2021	#3990
2022	#3449
2023	#3523
2024	#5119

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 69 of the 71 years from 1945 to 2015.

In 2015: #515 among boys in Norway, #4747 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #189 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2015
Highest recorded position: #85 among boys in Norway, in 1973 (recorded 1945–2015).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5119 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Cato appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 69 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 2,663 births with the name.

Cato across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Cato's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#189 (1945)	#85 (1973)	#515 (2015)	69 of 71	2,663 (1945–2015)	105 (1973)
England and Wales · Boys	#3134 (2001)	#2804 (2016)	#5119 (2024)	12 of 24	50 (2001–2024)	7 (2016)

Cato by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Cato in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	80	5 of 10	16
1950s	216	10 of 10	22
1960s	560	10 of 10	56
1970sbusiest	823	10 of 10	82
1980s	628	10 of 10	63
1990s	272	10 of 10	27
2000s	62	9 of 10	7
2010s	22	5 of 10	4

Across Norway · Boys, the 1970s were its busiest decade, averaging 82 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1988 and 1989, when recorded births fell by 29, from 76 to 47.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Cato appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #85 in Norway in 1973.

Cato's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3523	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3449	5	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#3996	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2804	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#3134	3	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#515	4	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#487	5	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#541	4	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#490	5	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#541	4	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#482	6	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#442	7	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#537	4	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#416	7	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#483	5	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#366	9	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#367	8	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#408	7	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#374	9	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#331	11	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#270	16	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#253	19	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#222	23	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#206	28	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#219	27	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#204	30	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#183	36	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#195	33	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#152	49	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#152	47	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#110	76	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#126	61	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#115	71	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#124	66	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#113	72	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#142	52	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#125	63	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#142	53	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#118	67	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#113	71	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#143	51	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#105	69	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#115	66	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#97	89	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#98	89	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#85	105	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#88	101	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#100	88	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#87	94	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#99	82	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#95	84	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#130	56	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#111	65	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#122	56	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#141	44	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#117	54	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#138	43	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#153	34	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#136	42	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#148	33	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#163	28	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#162	27	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#173	25	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#218	14	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#202	17	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#215	15	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#176	22	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#176	23	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#236	12	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#230	13	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#207	16	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#218	14	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#201	18	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#189	19	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2024, ranked in 77 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #85, first reached in 1973.

It held a top-100 place in 8 years, 8 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 105 births, registered in Norway in 1973.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 56 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Cathryn · #344, 26y
Cathy · #92, 54y
Catrin · #316, 29y
Catrina · #343, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Evy · #69, 80y
Sven · #69, 81y
Georg · #65, 81y
Karsten · #110, 81y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Aage · #85, 38y
Antonio · #85, 72y
Astri · #85, 81y
Audun · #85, 81y

Cato was ranked #85 in Norway · Boys in 1973. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Cato and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Cato without appearing here.

Cato moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3449 and #3048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3523 and #4991.
Ole Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3990 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3449 and #4789.
Einar Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3937 and #3411 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #3990 and #4789.
Nicola Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3848 and #3848 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3523 and #4107.

Moved ahead of Cato

Matheo Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3996 and #4812 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3937 and #2488.
Gunnar Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3315 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #4747 and #3373.
Daithi Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3449 and #4001 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3523 and #3112.
Isaac Compare
In 2003 they stood at #366 and #429 in Norway · Boys; by 2004 that had become #483 and #279.

Moved the opposite way to Cato

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2015 in Norway · Boys, Cato went from #189 to #515 while Aksel went from #174 to #10.
Andreas Compare
Between 1945 and 2015 in Norway · Boys, Cato went from #189 to #515 while Andreas went from #140 to #42.
Christian Compare
Between 1945 and 2015 in Norway · Boys, Cato went from #189 to #515 while Christian went from #161 to #80.
Daniel Compare
Between 1945 and 2015 in Norway · Boys, Cato went from #189 to #515 while Daniel went from #280 to #12.

Moved the same way as Cato

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2015 in Norway · Boys, Cato went from #189 to #515 and Anders from #55 to #170.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2015 in Norway · Boys, Cato went from #189 to #515 and Arne from #6 to #251.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2015 in Norway · Boys, Cato went from #189 to #515 and Bjørn from #3 to #158.
Dag Compare
Between 1945 and 2015 in Norway · Boys, Cato went from #189 to #515 and Dag from #48 to #516.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #85 in Norway in 1973. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Cato

Cato at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Cato across 2 official records

Cato by decade in Norway · Boys

Cato appears in

Popularity data

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Cato moved ahead of

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Cato at a glance

Cato across 2 official records

Cato by decade in Norway · Boys

Cato appears in

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Cato moved ahead of

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