Gaètan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gaètan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From French Gaëtan and Gaétan, from Italian Gaetano, from Latin Caiētānus.
- ISIceland1 in 175K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 600K
- USUnited States1 in 645K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 175K (inferred from the name graph)
516 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Gaetan in US United States, RW Rwanda.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- French Gaëtanand(measured from records)
- ItalianGaetano(measured from records)
- LatinCaiētānus(measured from records)
From French Gaëtan and Gaétan, from Italian Gaetano, from Latin Caiētānus.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gaètan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 516 | 1 in 645K | 501 | Gaetan | 12 |
| ES Spain | — | 32 | 1 in 1.6M | 32 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 18 | 1 in 960K | 18 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 17 | 1 in 600K | 17 | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 15 | 1 in 2.6M | 15 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
| RW Rwanda | #725 | — | — | — | Gaetan | 3 |
516 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gaètan mean, and where does it come from?
- From French Gaëtan and Gaétan, from Italian Gaetano, from Latin Caiētānus. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Gaètan a male or female name?
- Gaètan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gaètan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 516 people named Gaètan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaetan.
- Where is Gaètan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gaètan is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 175 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gaètan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 516 people named Gaètan in 2020, about 1 in 645 thousand residents.
- How common is Gaètan compared with other names?
- In Rwanda, Gaètan is the 725th most common given name of 862 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ga%C3%A8tanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gaètan” — the 725th most common given name in Rwanda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.