Cajetan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A male given name from Latin, of historical use
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/cʰædʒətən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cajetan is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Austria.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
A male given name from Latin, of historical use.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cajetan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Cajetan 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.
English: Roman Catholic religious name; see GAETANO
as a word
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)
- Cajetan Anton von Notthaftb. 1670DEPrince-Provost of Berchtesgaden
- Cajetan Toscanib. 1742DEGerman painter (1742-1815)
- Vincenz Cajetan Blahab. 1766CZphysician and naturalist
- Cajetan Pires Pireirab. 1769CNRoman Catholic bishop (1769-1838)
- Cajetan von Felderb. 1814ATAustrian politician and scientist (1814-1894)
- Cajetan Koglgruberb. 1817ATAustrian writer (1817-1907)
- Cajetan J. B. Baumannb. 1899USGerman-American architect (1899-1969)
- Thomas Cajetan Kellyb. 1931USAmerican archbishop (1931–2011)
- Cajetan Fernandesb. 1989INGoan footballer
- Cajetan Lenzb. 2006DEGerman footballer
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)
Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cajetan mean, and where does it come from?
- A male given name from Latin, of historical use. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Cajetan have the most bearers?
- Cajetan is most frequently recorded in Austria.
- Is Cajetan a male or female name?
- Cajetan 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.
- How do you pronounce Cajetan?
- A machine transcription gives /cʰædʒətən/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Cajetan?
- In the etymology graph, Cayetano, Gaetano and Gaëtan are forms of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Cajetan?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cajetanThe 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, “Cajetan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.