Cato is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Cato in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Cato in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Cato by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Cato ranks at #3,635. That means there are 3,634 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Cato.
Is the name Cato a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Parents chose this name most often in 1891 – at that time, it landed at position 609 with 8 newborn boys receiving this special first name. This was the last peak in a world without airplanes, computers, rock music, or even television. Because Cato is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always think to give their child this unusual name. So, if your name is Cato, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, your name is what makes you stand out these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Cato was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Welcome, Cato, to 2022. Even if your highest rank is long ago, 36 parents welcomed a new Cato to earth that year. That makes Cato ranking on position 2,882 among newborn boys in the SmartGenius statistics. If you know someone named Cato who was born in 2022, you know someone truly special.
If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Cato, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in California or Texas. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Cato living in one state or another. (If your name is Cato and you live outside of California and Texas, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 1,256,283 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Cato. So if your name is Cato, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Cato already makes you quite special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.
With four letters, the name Cato is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.
If your name is Cato and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Cato, you can simply say:
Cat
Apple
Tiger
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Cato
Cato
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
A
T
O
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
A
T
O
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Cato sounds like this:
