Gaitan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: forma dialetal set. de Gaitano
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡaitan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gaitan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nicaragua than in any other country, where it is the 33rd most common surname.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 289(inferred from the name graph)
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 2K
- ARArgentina1 in 2.4K
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.
- Nicaragua (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 289 (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
forma dialetal set. de Gaitano
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gaitan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NI Nicaragua | #33 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 289 | — | Gaitan | 40 |
| AR Argentina | #324 | 18,951 | 1 in 2.4K | 19K | Gaitan | 78 |
| CO Colombia | #291 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 12 | Gaitan | 122 |
| US United States | — | 7,702 | 1 in 43K | 7.7K | Gaitan | 289 |
| GT Guatemala | #124 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Gaitan | 35 |
| SV El Salvador | #287 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Gaitan | 26 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 2,760 | 1 in 1.8K | 2.8K | — | 35 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Gaitan 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.
variant of Italian Gaetano.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Jorge Eliécer Gaitánb. 1903COColombian politician (1903-1948)
- Vladimir Găitanb. 1947RORomanian actor
- Fernando Gaitán Salomb. 1960COColombian television producer qjqi1ii1i1 (1960–2019)
- Iliana Foxb. 1977MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress
- Carolina Gaitánb. 1984COColombian actress and singer
- Natalia Reyesb. 1987COnot in their usual nameColombian actress
- Nicolás Gaitánb. 1988ARArgentine footballer
- Óscar Duarteb. 1989CRnot in their usual nameassociation football player
- Paulina Gaitánb. 1992MXMexican actress
- Javier Manquillob. 1994ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 19K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.7K | #4,606 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.5K | #4,609 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.8K | #5,490 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2.8K | #319 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 12 | #104 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 Gaitan mean, and where does it come from?
- forma dialetal set. de Gaitano Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Gaitan?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡaitan/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Gaitan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Gaitan in Nicaragua, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gaitan.
- How common is the name Gaitan?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 18,951 people named Gaitan, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Gaitan compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Gaitan is the 33rd most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gaitanThe 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, “Gaitan” — the 33rd most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.