In all the world, Gateaux (Gateaux 
) is quite a rare principally feminine, but scarcely male first name. The forename Gateaux is characteristic of Algeria, where it is quite a rare primarily girly, but very infrequently male name, Morocco, where it is a rare female name, and France, where it is a very rare female name. Likewise, Gateaux is the last name as well as the forename.