Gaetano
Gaetano is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 21 births. Its best rank was 636th, in 1914.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 210.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 192187 births
- Best rank
- #636in 1914
- Since 1904
- 3,834people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,834 boys have been named Gaetano in the United States since 1904, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 87 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1956, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Gaetano | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 35 | |
| 1910s | 546 | |
| 1920s | 658 | |
| 1930s | 316 | |
| 1940s | 221 | |
| 1950s | 236 | |
| 1960s | 359 | |
| 1970s | 351 | |
| 1980s | 275 | |
| 1990s | 267 | |
| 2000s | 257 | |
| 2010s | 210 | |
| 2020s | 103 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Gaetano was the 696th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Gaetano
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Silviopeak 1922
- Saveriopeak 1922
- Domenickpeak 1925
- Americopeak 1922
- Gennaropeak 1926
- Guidopeak 1921
- Pasqualepeak 1917
- Biagiopeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.