Cayetano

#9,879 in 2025Boys' name

Inhabitant of Gaeta

Cayetano has been given to 752 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #9,879 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1937, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Cayetano, 2025

1 in 474,000

Cayetano over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cayetano: meaning, origin, and history

Inhabitant of Gaeta

Latin

What Cayetano means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Cayetano is used in Spanish. Its origins include Latin.

Cayetano comes through Latin Caiētānus and Italian Gaetano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cajetan.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Cayetano is pronounced /kaʝeˈtano/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 752 boys were recorded with the name Cayetano between 1906 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1937; its best national rank was #1,273 in 1906.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,901 in 2015 to #9,879 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 Cayetano?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 474,000; 7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 244,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #9,879; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 328,272 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Cayetano 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cayetano. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cayetanos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cayetano was born before 1961 — so the typical Cayetano is around 64 today.

Median birth year: 1961; About 64 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 11.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 22.7%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 460; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 11.8% of all recorded uses (89).

Is Cayetano 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: +198; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: +1,022; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.17×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 46.7%; Peak was 1937 (15)
Years since peak: 88; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,273; 1906

Spellings of Cayetano

Cayetano is not the most common spelling — Gaetano is, with 83.7% against Cayetano's 16.3%.

Gaetano83.7%3,861
Cayetano16.3%752

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 Cayetano is used

Across 1910–2025, Cayetano was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 72,876 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Cayetano has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Cayetano around the world

Where Cayetano 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.

France
1962–2020
#6,764
in 2020

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Cayetano by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #9,879
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #1,273; 1906
Peak year: 1937; 15 that year
First recorded: 1906
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 752
Count in 2025: 7

Names similar to Cayetano

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

Caydence Lucciano Giuliano Stephano Marciano Cayman Cayleb Severiano Aureliano Caylen Silviano Giordano Juliano Damiano Silvano Cipriano Cayce Toriano Caysen Cayne Miliano Estefano Amiliano Caydon

Sibling names for Cayetano

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

For a sister

Nelda Annetta Beverley Jerilyn Marlyn Socorro Billy Freddie

For a brother

Boyce Rayford Talmadge Ned Lupe Dudley Frances Jewel

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