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Cayetana

#9,579 in 2025Girls' name

Inhabitant of Gaeta

Cayetana has been given to 154 babies in the U.S. since 1928. In 2025 it ranked #9,579 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Cayetana, 2025

1 in 332,000

Cayetana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cayetana: meaning, origin, and history

Inhabitant of Gaeta

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cayetana means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Cayetana is used in Spanish.

Cayetana comes through Latin Caiētānus and Italian Gaetano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cayetano.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Cayetana is pronounced /kaʝeˈtana/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 154 girls were recorded with the name Cayetana between 1928 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,267 in 1928.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,402 in 2020 to #9,579 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,060 in 2015 to #9,579 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 Cayetana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,579
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cayetana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cayetana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cayetanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cayetana was born before 2022 — so the typical Cayetana is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
65.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
148
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Choose a decade

2020s — 65.6% of all recorded uses (101).

Is Cayetana 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
−3,745
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,823
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,481
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.25×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.7%
Peak was 2023 (28)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,267
1928

Spellings of Cayetana

Cayetana is not the most common spelling — Gaetana is, with 81.5% against Cayetana's 18.5%.

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.

Where Cayetana is used

Across 1910–2025, Cayetana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 935,641 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Cayetana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cayetana around the world

Where Cayetana 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
    2025–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2014–2025
    #3,118
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Cayetana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,579
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,823
Best rank ever
#4,267
1928
Peak year
2023
28 that year
First recorded
1928
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
154
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Cayetana

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

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Sibling names for Cayetana

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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