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Gaetana

Girls' name

Feminine form of Gaetano

Gaetana has been given to 677 babies in the U.S. since 1904. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1923, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Gaetana, 2008

1 in 786,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gaetana: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Gaetano

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gaetana means

Gaetana is a feminine form of Gaetano.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Gaetana is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ɡa.e.ˈtaː.na/ for Gaetana.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Gaetana → Gaetano. The family’s meaning is “inhabitant of Gaeta”, recorded in Italian with the source elements gaetano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gaetano.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 677 girls were recorded with the name Gaetana between 1904 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1923; its best national rank was #1,420 in 1915.

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 Gaetana?

Gaetana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 786,000
5 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 378,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
544,916 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gaetana 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 2008 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 544,916 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gaetana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gaetanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gaetana was born before 1930 — so the typical Gaetana is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
26.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
188
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1920s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (181).

Is Gaetana 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1923 (27)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,420
1915

Spellings of Gaetana

Gaetana is not the most common spelling — Aitana is, with 53.9% against Gaetana's 3.7%.

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 Gaetana is used

Across 1910–2025, Gaetana was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 88,551 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 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. Gaetana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gaetana around the world

Where Gaetana 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
    1926–2013
    #7,224
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1950–1990
    #691
    in 1990

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gaetana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,420
1915
Peak year
1923
27 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
677
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gaetana

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

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Sibling names for Gaetana

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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