About the name Catarino
Catarino belongs to the Portuguese tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Catarino first appears in Social Security records in 1896. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1126 in 1896, and in 2024 11 babies received the name — 1,684 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.