Gaëtano
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gaëtano is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From gaetano (“inhabitant of Gaeta”), from Latin Caiētānus. Name of an Italian saint. Gaëtano is also written กาเอตาโน in Thai and Γκαετανο in Greek.
- ITItaly≈1 in 500(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 7.9K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 10Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 504 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Gaëtano in other scripts: Thai and Greek
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gaetano in IT Italy, US United States, FR France and 3 more.
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)From gaetano (“inhabitant of Gaeta”), from Latin Caiētānus. Name of an Italian saint.
Cited for this meaning 9
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Wiktionary
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gaëtano 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #158 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 504 | 232 | Gaetano | 194 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Gaetano | 1 |
| US United States | — | 3,249 | 1 in 102K | 3.2K | Gaetano | 247 |
| BE Belgium | #901 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | 27 | Gaetano | 57 |
| FR France | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 71K | 435 | Gaetano | 177 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 23 | Gaetano | 56 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 629 | 1 in 46K | 629 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 50 | 1 in 68K | 50 | — | — |
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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 Gaëtano mean, and where does it come from?
- From gaetano (“inhabitant of Gaeta”), from Latin Caiētānus. Name of an Italian saint. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and A concise dictionary of first names and 7 other sources.
- Is Gaëtano a male or female name?
- Gaëtano 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Gaëtano?
- Mondonomo estimates about 117 thousand people named Gaëtano in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaetano. After it come Pakistan, United States, Belgium and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gaëtano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,249 people named Gaëtano in 2020, about 1 in 102 thousand residents.
- How common is Gaëtano compared with other names?
- In Italy, Gaëtano is the 158th most common given name of 102,667 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%ABtanoThe 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, “Gaëtano” — ranked 108th in Italy (ISTAT). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.