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Caetano

#6,512 in 2025Boys' name

Inhabitant of Gaeta

Caetano has been given to 150 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #6,512 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Caetano, 2025

1 in 255,000

Caetano over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Caetano: meaning, origin, and history

Inhabitant of Gaeta

Latin

What Caetano means

Caetano means “inhabitant of Gaeta”, associated with Caiētānus.

Origin, language, and formation

Caetano is used in Galician and Portuguese. Its origins include Latin.

Caetano comes through Latin Caiētānus and Italian Gaetano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cajetan and Caitanu.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Galician, Caetano is pronounced /kaeˈtano̝/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 150 boys were recorded with the name Caetano between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2025; its best national rank was #6,512 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,331 in 2020 to #6,512 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,865 in 2015 to #6,512 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Caetano?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,512
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Caetano sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caetano. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Caetanos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Caetano was born before 2013 — so the typical Caetano is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
150
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.7% of all recorded uses (55).

Is Caetano rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+384
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,819
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,353
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.63×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (13)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,512
2025

Spellings of Caetano

Caetano is not the most common spelling — Gaetano is, with 53.4% against Caetano's 2.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Caetano around the world

Where Caetano ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2015–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #829
    in 2025
  • France
    2003–2025
    #2,881
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #1,972
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Caetano by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,512
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,819
Best rank ever
#6,512
2025
Peak year
2025
13 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
150
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Caetano

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Caetano

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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