Gaétan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Latin Caietanus, ‘from Caieta’ (Gaeta, Italy) (Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: INSEE, 2023
/ɡa.e.tɑ̃/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary
Gaétan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- GFFrench Guiana≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- MQMartinique≈1 in 3.4K
- RERéunion≈1 in 4.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
French Guiana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Gaëtan in FR France, BE Belgium, CH Switzerland and 2 more and Gaetan in US United States.
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.
How to pronounce Gaétan
- French:/ɡa.e.tɑ̃/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Latin Caietanus, ‘from Caieta’ (Gaeta, Italy).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gaétan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #908 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | 53K | Gaëtan | 214 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 2 | Gaëtan | 5 |
| BE Belgium | #691 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | 1 | Gaëtan | 83 |
| CM Cameroon | #700 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Gaëtan | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | #997 | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 3 | Gaëtan | 35 |
| US United States | — | 516 | 1 in 645K | 501 | Gaetan | 141 |
| RE Réunion | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | 5 | — | 6 |
| MQ Martinique | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 5 | — | 5 |
| GF French Guiana | — | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | 5 | — | 3 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | 5 | — | 3 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Gaétan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, a male given name from Italian, feminine equivalent Gaétane, equivalent to English Cajetan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Gaétan Barretteb. 1956CACanadian politician
- Gaétan Boucherb. 1958CACanadian speed skater
- Gaétan Duchesneb. 1962CACanadian ice hockey player (1962–2007)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gaétan mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Caietanus, ‘from Caieta’ (Gaeta, Italy). Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Gaétan?
- In the etymology graph, Cayetano, Gaetano and KAjetan are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Gaétan?
- In French /ɡa.e.tɑ̃/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Gaétan a male or female name?
- Gaétan is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2023).
- Which countries have the most people named Gaétan?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.8 thousand people named Gaétan in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaëtan. After it come Congo - Kinshasa, Belgium, Cameroon and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gaétan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 516 people named Gaétan in 2020, about 1 in 645 thousand residents.
- How common is Gaétan compared with other names?
- In France, Gaétan is the 908th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ga%C3%A9tanThe 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, “Gaétan” — ranked 568th in France (INSEE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.