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Gaetano

#3,978 in 2025Boys' name

Inhabitant of Gaeta

Gaetano has been given to 3,861 babies in the U.S. since 1904. In 2025 it ranked #3,978 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 87 recorded.

Babies named Gaetano, 2025

1 in 123,000

Gaetano over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gaetano: meaning, origin, and history

Inhabitant of Gaeta

Latin

What Gaetano means

Gaetano means “inhabitant of Gaeta”, associated with gaetano.

Origin, language, and formation

Gaetano is used in Italian. Its origins include Latin.

Gaetano comes through Latin Caiētānus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cajetan and Caitanu.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Gaetano is pronounced /ɡa.eˈta.no/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,861 boys were recorded with the name Gaetano between 1904 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 87 in 1921; its best national rank was #636 in 1914.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,051 in 2020 to #3,978 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,581 in 2015 to #3,978 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 Gaetano?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,978
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gaetano 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gaetano. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gaetanos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gaetano was born before 1956 — so the typical Gaetano is around 69 today.

Median birth year
1956
About 69 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
17.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,085
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1920s — 17.0% of all recorded uses (658).

Is Gaetano 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
+772
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+73
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,603
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.69×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.0%
Peak was 1921 (87)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#636
1914

Spellings of Gaetano

Gaetano is the most-used spelling, taking 83.7% of the 4,613 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Gaetano is used

Across 1910–2025, Gaetano was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 27,458 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 9,091
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 20,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 25,000
  4. 4Rhode Island1 in 25,000
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 33,333
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 in —

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. Gaetano has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gaetano around the world

Where Gaetano 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
    2004–2014
    #3,895
    in 2014
  • France
    1920–2025
    #4,662
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #2,570
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1951–1999
    #539
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Gaetano

People whose public names include Gaetano, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Gaetano in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Gaetano. Linked forms have their own page here.

GaetanCaetanoKajetanCayetanoGaietàGaétanGaëtanCaitanoCajetanKajetánCaietanus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Gaetano by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,978
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 73
Best rank ever
#636
1914
Peak year
1921
87 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,861
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Gaetano

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

StefanoAdrianoMarianoDelanoTorianoCiprianoSilvanoJulianoCristianoLucianoMarcianoDamianoFelicianoGiulianoCayetanoMilianoLuccianoStephanoVivianoSeverianoEmilianoMilanoAurelianoCaetano

Names with a curve like Gaetano

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Gaetano, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

RosarioAntoneElginGastonThurstonSantoDomenickGennaroSilvioAllisonGardnerDonato

Sibling names for Gaetano

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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