Cato

Where Cato comes from

From Latin Cato. A cognomen made particularly famous by Cato the Elder and Younger, members of the gens Porcia.
— Wiktionary's entry for Cato
  • Latin
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1836
    Cato Maximilian Guldberg born
    mathematician and chemist from Norway
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1891
    Peak, #700
    8 babies named Cato — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1892
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  5. 1920
    Cato Bontjes van Beek born
    member of the German resistance to Nazism
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Cato Maximilian Guldberg · mathematician and chemist from Norway, 1836–1902
  • Cato Bontjes van Beek · member of the German resistance to Nazism, 1920–1943
  • Cato André Hansen · Norwegian footballer and manager, born 1972
  • Cato Menkerud · Norwegian rally driver, born 1973
  • Cato Guntveit · Norwegian footballer, born 1975

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.