Frequency: (1554)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Southern Italian: from the personal name Cataldo, popularized in the Middle Ages by the cult of Saint Cataldo, an Irish monk and disciple of Saint Carthage, who on returning from a pilgrimage in the Holy Land settled in Taranto.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 16%. Angelo (10), Salvatore (9), Vito (5), Carlo (4), Rocco (4), Sal (4), Antonio (3), Carmine (3), Giovanni (3), Luigi (3), Aldo (2), Domenic (2).
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