Gaetan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Origine latine, « habitant de Gaète » (ville du Latium, Italie centrale)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/gaɛtɑ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gaetan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 3.2K
- CACanada≈1 in 6.4K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 321 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Origine latine, « habitant de Gaète » (ville du Latium, Italie centrale).
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gaetan 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 | #307 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 53K | Gaetan | 321 |
| CA Canada | #760 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | 5 | Gaetan | 179 |
| CM Cameroon | #404 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Gaetan | 25 |
| BE Belgium | #610 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 1 | Gaetan | 109 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 2 | Gaetan | 6 |
| US United States | — | 516 | 1 in 645K | 501 | Gaetan | 178 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 5 | — | 8 |
| MQ Martinique | — | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 5 | — | 8 |
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); the ca-statcan-baby-names register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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 971 (Guadeloupe). 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)
Gaetan 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 English, A male given name from French, 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)
- Sébastien Des Guidib. 1769FRnot in their usual nameFrench physician
- Prince Gaetan, Count of Girgentib. 1846ITSpanish infante (1846–1871)
- Gaetan Ajellob. 1883USarchitect
- Gaetano De Gennarob. 1890BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian painter (1890-1959)
- Cayetano de Borbón-Dos Siciliasb. 1917FRnot in their usual name(1917-1984)
- Gaetan Serréb. 1938CACanadian politician
- Gaetan Augsburgerb. 1988CHSwiss ice hockey player
- Gaétan Royb. 2000CAPolitical Commissioner and UN Representative
- Gaëtan Vourc'hactor
- Gaetan MentorHTHaitian writer
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 45 sources across 26 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- How do you pronounce Gaetan?
- A machine transcription gives /gaɛtɑ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Gaetan a male or female name?
- Gaetan 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.
- What does the name Gaetan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Origine latine, « habitant de Gaète » (ville du Latium, Italie centrale).
- In which country does Gaetan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Gaetan in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaetan.
- How common is the name Gaetan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 516 people named Gaetan in 2020, about 1 in 645 thousand residents.
- How common is Gaetan compared with other names?
- In France, Gaetan is the 307th 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/gaetanThe 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, “Gaetan” — the 307th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.