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Kajetan

Boys' name

Inhabitant of Gaeta

Kajetan has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2010. 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 2010, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Kajetan, 2015

1 in 740,000

Kajetan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kajetan: meaning, origin, and history

Inhabitant of Gaeta

Latin

What Kajetan means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Kajetan is used in German and Polish. Its origins include Latin.

Kajetan comes through Latin Caiētānus and Italian Gaetano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Cajetan.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Kajetan is pronounced /ˈkaː.je.taːn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Kajetan between 2010 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2010; its best national rank was #11,456 in 2010.

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 Kajetan?

Kajetan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kajetan 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kajetan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kajetans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kajetan was born before 2010 — so the typical Kajetan is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Kajetan 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 2010 (6)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,456
2010

Spellings of Kajetan

Kajetan is not the most common spelling — Kaelan is, with 69.1% against Kajetan's 0.50%.

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.

Kajetan around the world

Where Kajetan 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
    2006–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2020
    #711
    in 2020
  • Northern Ireland
    2016–2016
    #421
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2007–2020
    #741
    in 2020

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Central Statistics Office. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0.

Kajetan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#11,456
2010
Peak year
2010
6 that year
First recorded
2010
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kajetan

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

KajaniKajaunNeitanDristanKajanaHeitanElnatanKajaiChaitanNehitanNeytanKajusRustanDunstanChintanChastanSpartanChaytanBristanDaltanBrytanKeetanKhotanShritan

Sibling names for Kajetan

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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